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Do the thin conductors cause bass loss?
No, expect more bass than you have previously
had. Slinkylinks are designed to produce minimal losses for a
cable; you simply get more of everything.
The increased linearity of the signal generated
through the air dielectric insulation means that the bass signals
arrive in time with treble frequencies. Subjectively, this tightens
everything up. The bass becomes far more melodic and is synchronous
with other recorded instruments.
At first, this may be mistaken for bass loss.
After some brief listening the magnitude of bass notes will become
more apparent and clear.
Conventionally insulated cable smears bass notes,
making them disproportionate to the rest of your music; bass notes
tend to ‘thump’ at the expense of other important
details of the recording.
What is resistance?
V=I R where V is voltage, I is current and R =
resistance. Resistance is the measurement of an impediment to
current flow. The higher the resistance the more voltage required
to force a current through a conductor. So is resistance bad?
No, not necessarily. At worse you could have some volume loss
or be wasting a small amount of energy.
How does resistance affect Slinkylinks?
Slinkylinks are a relatively high resistance cable.
This is due to the small size of the conductors. The benefits
of the small conductors by far outweigh any losses created though
resistance. At worst minor adjustments to volume may be necessary
to compensate for losses (speaker cables only) Slinkylinks may
give an impression of not being as loud as conventional cables
in direct A-B comparison, this however is not due to energy loss,
but a lack of noise and harshness associated with other cables.
Until now this noise has been accepted as normal in stereo systems.
What is the plastic sleeve made of?
All Slinkylinks utilise PVC plastic for its durability,
strength and ability to be recycled. As only 4% of the surface
area of our conductors can ever make contact with the wall of
our plastic tubes, the dielectric benefits of expensive plastics
are effectively negated.
How do you prevent the silver touching
the tube?
We don’t. Excess silver is threaded inside
each tube, allowing the wire to helix inside it.
This provides Slinkylinks cable with functional
flexibility and makes them easy to install in a variety of situations.
As the silver conductors are not bonded to the plastic in anyway,
there is even air between the wire and the touching plastic surface.
Allowing the wire to randomly make contact with the insulating
plastic wall produces a result close to using a bare-wire.
Will air cause corrosion?
Yes, however silver oxides are conductive, and
although not as efficient as pure silver, will not be detrimental
to sound and Slinkylinks performance.
Can the dielectric of air fluctuate with temperature
and humidity?
Yes, but the effects will be small, and to our
ears cannot be discerned even in the most high-resolution systems.
Can the dielectric of air fluctuate with
temperature and humidity?
Yes, but the effects will be small, and
not audible to our ears even in the most high-resolution systems.
Is shielding necessary?
There are certain situations where shielding is
necessary. Around P.A equipment for example where there are long
runs of cable and lots of electronic noise (EMI) shielding is
essential. However in home application, these fields are typically
much smaller and not an issue. The capacitance gain through shielding
a cable will be far more detrimental to cable performance than
distortion picked up through EMI.
Do Slinkylinks burn-in?
Do cables and components audibly change with time?
Odds are that in reality stereo equipment is at its best performance
level when it is new out of the box.
Have you ever thought it’s my listening
that has changed and not the equipment? Slinkylinks will sound
radically different from what you have previously heard and may
take some time to adjust to.
We have compared cables that have been in a cable-cooker
device for hundreds of hours against others fresh from the can.
There is a small difference in smoothness, but it is subtle. The
change between burnt in and un-burnt Slinkylinks is certainly
nothing like the leap you will get when switching to our cables
for the first time.
Is inductance an issue?
In most cases, valve amplifiers have output transformers
that are extremely inductive devices. And yet, valve amplifiers
are considered some of the best sounding equipment available.
This suggests that inductance is of little consequence to accurate
music reproduction. Slinkylinks design with parallel conductors
is not very inductive, keeping inductor effects to a minimum.
Should I bi-wire my speakers?
In almost all cases one set of S1 Slinkylinks
will yield a huge improvement in performance.
The gain through bi-wiring fluctuates; with a well
designed crossover the benefits will be smaller – but will
still yield a valuable sonic improvement. With a lesser designed
crossover the result will be more explicit. The improved earthing
in the crossover generally creates more bass and openness in the
top-end.
Is skin effect an issue with Slinkylinks?
Most music has very little energy above 10 kHz.
Similarly most people are unable to hear anything above 15 kHz.
Skin effects arguments usually site attenuation as the problem.
This is likely to be such a tiny attenuation that it is totally
undetectable, as they will be less than 0.3dB.
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