I can't believe the 3 hour debate I've just had. Me and
@TTony were on a call, and the conversation turned to whether we thought coily cables made any difference to the tone or not. And I said that I thought they made a huge difference, and that part of the stock "I wanna sound like Hendrix" kit involved a coily cable. Well Tony pulled out his perfectly straight and angular cables, and some old naff coily thing he had that was clearly of substandard 2010's quality, and did an on the fly A/B test for me.
He used his full PMC based rig, with high quality 64kbps streaming over the internet to show me that in actual fact, the coiled cables sounded no different to his angular nazi salute cables, and the whole thing escalated into a 3 hour debate where we both got quite aggressive and threatened to drink each others R Whites (half pints) at the next tFB pub session (in 2026, when we've all stopped dying of covaids)
I am so livid. I have spent my entire guitar life believing that coily cables were the be all and end all... and now a bonefide scientist has proven me wrong! How can I get over this change in mentality, or alternatively, how can I prove him wrong beyond a shadow of a Gwen Stefani ????
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So boringly, all else being equal, that's where the reputation for signal loss comes from.
You may have got a more accurate result if you’d used germanium transistors in your broadband router instead of silicon.
Rather than more of this uninformed speculation and baseless opinion, we really need some knowledgeable, expert, input (and output).
We need an oscilloscope operator ...
What we really needed was proper analogue.
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/The_Vintage_Coiled_Cable_Simulator_Mod
I have people to do the ironing - I'd never do it myself.
as long as you don’t move North or South