The use of “materials” as a selling point is easy to top with superior EM design. Anybody can use “can’t top this” material in substandard designs and provide you with the bill, me included.
ICONOCLAST avoid the $$$ materials till dead last as the DESIGN is what you are paying for. Materials need to be appropriate for the application and that’s easy to adhere to. The DESIGN that is appropriate for the application is far more elusive and difficult.
MS rates tires on my Panamera will allow it to eclipse my GTI with summer tires, easily. Why? The fundamental DESIGN of the car is superior to $$$ summer tires allowing it to excel with “lesser” materials! Make sure you get the right design before you pay for any materials. True on all kinds of things.
What allows the $$$ materials to work properly, and to the level you are paying for? Without that answer race tires on a go cart isn’t the best purchase. The same tire on various “cars” will perform radically different too. Thus just the tire isn’t really getting the job done. The CAR is a larger variable than the tire. Sure, the best car AND the best tire is what we want. We seldom pay attention to the car buying cable.
We’ve been trained to buy materials. I was too until I looked at the deficiencies through the audio band that need better solutions and wire or any magic material by themselves won’t provide them. Now what? We need better designs.
I decided to look at the design as I’m a look at the car more kind of buyer. ICONOCLAST is that resultant. Now we can see better where the beef is with copper if there is any as the DESIGN allows a higher order or performance from any wire material. Now we are getting somewhere.
Manufacturer’s need to step-up and show the beef on their designs, and HOW materials are best leveraged electromagnetically. Hate it or not, it is all in the math. The cable has no emotions and will intertwin with the physics based on the field properties in space and the dielectrics. It can’t sound better if the design isn’t better. Find out where a design is better and look at the data that supports it. We do it for all our other audio stuff but not cable.
At any moment we have the best wire (conductor) and dielectric to work with. Mother nature says there is but ONE “ideal” EM design to use them in. I don’t think we have that ONE ideal design as no one is willing to substantiate WHY their current design(s) excels and fails. When every change makes a design WORSE, we are seeing a asymptotic level of balance that says we have a better, if not the most, ideal design limited by analog physics.
As a design is better, it tends to improve ALL aspects of how EM wave behave at analog frequencies. Mother Nature is efficient. She’ll make sure every step is a proper step for every attribute and in the proper direction if the DESIGN is correct. What that pinnacle of perfection is is what we are after.
The wire material as ZERO influence in that balance with referenced input conductor (use copper, or silver, or aluminum as an example). Once a proper EM balance is achieved, we can then, and only then, change referenced wire material science and evaluate the changes…if we even can. We place way too much emphasis on a wire property and far too little on design.
Best,
Galen
