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Old 01-15-2010, 03:10 PM
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Ok, so looks like this guy ^^^ got upset, wait not Dukk, zoomer lol

I wasn't intending on buy this at all, nor do I think anyone else was. I was just curious if anyone has heard of it. In all honesty I'm more than happy with my welding cable, and if I had to buy "power cable" I would have gone with a company that tends to oversize their wire.

My economics degree taught didn't teach me anything about physics other than what goes up must come down (thank you very much Wall Street), I just never heard of a Magnetic Flux Tube. It looked like plastic, and I didn't think plastic worked well as a conductor. I will say they came up with a nifty name...thats about it.

And I'd like to think the flexibility in the cable plays some role in pricing, just because it makes it easier to use, saving you time, and if you don't value your time, well Sir, I reckon you're not properly enjoying that quantity of beer in ml to the correct power of pi over the square root of the velocity at which it leaves the glass mulitiplied by the rate of change in beer volume within the glass + 6. They call that the Heineken ratio.

As for the link you provided, I will definitely give it a look, but I won't spend that much time on it because PS3 > reading about cables any day all day. I think that would more than likely be the majority vote here.
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Old 01-15-2010, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Dukk
For what your average electrician does every day, aside from material (aluminum vs copper) for them wire IS wire.

Once you go past 60hzAC applications though, things can get complicated. I'm no wire voodoo believer but there are a few things that are important.


mehhhh not really, I think wire is wire dependant upon the application. Wiring something like speakers they may not care so long as its stranded (using this term loosely). Wire meant for houses however they probably wouldn't recommend for power and ground. Unlesss maybe its the cables they use when hooking up a service, that is some thick *** wire, and hard as hell to bend in the cold.
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^ I said "For what your average electrician does every day..." which is wire up 60hz AC power. Not many are wiring home theatre systems. For some reason, most of that work is left to people with little to no actual credentials. Isn't that a kick in the pants
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Old 01-15-2010, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by zoomer
good wife just poored me a beer.
That must be one expensive beer if it "poored" you

Oh yeah...and copper is copper. And the stuff used to connect your house to service, or my server room UPS to the transformer (4/0 I think) is hard to bend in a Sahara summer, not just the cold.
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Old 01-15-2010, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Dukk
For what your average electrician does every day, aside from material (aluminum vs copper) for them wire IS wire.

Once you go past 60hzAC applications though, things can get complicated. I'm no wire voodoo believer but there are a few things that are important.

Please describe what complications you think happen above 60 Hz and below 20kz normal audio frequencies...Using such terms as inductance, capacitance.. wire diameter, wire spacing etc...
Again. go to that audioholics link and you will understand.
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Not to mention all the expensive copper they replaced with this cheap piece of plastic. LOL Unless of course this wire is alot thicker than the same gauge wire without it.

Benny77 can you compare yours to some normal 4ga to see what the difference in diameter is?
I have some next time we see each other I'll let you have a look, it was what I had in my old car (you actually saw that) its pretty close if not true 4g
Off topic we should meet one day and you can help me run my length of 1g
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Originally Posted by ndinadis
I have some next time we see each other I'll let you have a look, it was what I had in my old car (you actually saw that) its pretty close if not true 4g
Off topic we should meet one day and you can help me run my length of 1g
If you got a warm place to work let me know when you want to do it.
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Originally Posted by Jaloosk
That must be one expensive beer if it "poored" you

Oh yeah...and copper is copper. And the stuff used to connect your house to service, or my server room UPS to the transformer (4/0 I think) is hard to bend in a Sahara summer, not just the cold.
Oh I know, but when its cold that means you're cold, the wire is cold, its a recipe for not goodness, you know?
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Originally Posted by fresh1
Oh I know, but when its cold that means you're cold, the wire is cold, its a recipe for not goodness, you know?
True dat.
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Originally Posted by zoomer
Please describe what complications you think happen above 60 Hz and below 20kz normal audio frequencies...Using such terms as inductance, capacitance.. wire diameter, wire spacing etc...
Again. go to that audioholics link and you will understand.

lol, I am not going to engage you in this. Discussing the finer points of cable is about as boring as it gets.

The things I am talking about are the differences between say coaxial and twisted pair RCAs.
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