A brilliant video about speaker cables and interconnects.
Facts presented in a neutral way, which is quite unusual…
Nothing new, but well presented.
A nice summery ending by some thoughts and personal experience.
Worth the 30 minutes
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As instructed by the speaker in the first minute, I didn’t watch the rest of the video.
Roger
Hi Roger,
The guy started the video in a funny way, 45-50 seconds later it becomes interesting 
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Once here there was the civil habit, on the moderators’ part, to scribble a line or two to motivate the removal of a whole post.
Moderation is one thing, censorship is another. Especially when the moderated member has not, in general, shown a harmful, dangerous or politically hostile attitude. Thanks. A line – just one – to explain the difference in perspective regarding the good or bad taste of my innocent reply would have been appropriate and enough, but this is your house, and I am not forced to come in. My fault. Good luck and good night.
Max, what is this about? You made a post on this thread , then you deleted it 5 minutes later. I’m baffled here. Please enlighten me.
I deleted the second one. The first one disappeared by itself. Or else 53 days of self-seclusion at home have damaged my faculties. Suffice it to say that the first one mentioned C-19, the second one didn’t. Did I enlighten you?
Sorry Max, I’m looking at all the actions taken on this thread. You made a post. Then you deleted it. There’s no other post from you (whether deleted or not).
A good video. I enjoyed watching it and learned a few things. Nice one!
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Yes, I actually just watched this a few days ago. It was refreshing to see a video that explains the science in a very simple way.
It’s a good watch. From my point of view it’s obvious that a conductor plays a part in a circuit. I don’t understand how some people completely oppose this point of view. For example, a different gauge of cable will have a different property therefore different sound. Anyway there are still people who believe the earth is still flat so I’ll just leave it at that.
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In case it helps, on maybe 2 or 3 isolated occasions I have posted something, or tried to, but for some reason it simply failed and I had to re-do. I assumed it was either my error accidentally deleting instead of posting, or an internet or system glitch somewhere (I do recall one occasion I having to close the Discourse Hub app and reopen it to get back in).
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Certainly for speaker cable that is demonstrably true - at least within bounds. For interconnects that is probably true. For digital cables, in my experience, that is true for very very small values of true.
I thought it very good. Very informative.
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It sort of summarised the cable question & influence much as I believe it to be.
Beachcomber’s post does the same, especially so re the comment about digital cables. I am in real doubts that digital cables as such have any effect, what changes that they might make are more about the effects between the analogue carrier & the end points.
But whatever, it’s all subjective & anecdotal, if it does something for you, great, go with it.
great video Thomas thanks
interesting he thinks shielded interconnects can be worthwhile - I don’t think the hi line is shielded but naim obviously chose not to shield for a reason
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The HiLine is a pair of miniature coax cables in a sleeve, so each coax for ch1 & ch2 has its own screen that is common to -ve
thanks Mike - I thought I read somewhere here naim don’t shield, maybe it was the power cables. Never mind happy with the hi line anyway 
The screen question was probably re the PowerLine, neither the full fat or the Lite are screened.
For completeness, the Lavender IC is an unscreened 4 core.
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That is something I’ve wondered about- I would have assumed screening a power cable was a good thing to reduce the risk of the mains frequency radiating from the cable and being picked up by one of the interconnects/pieces of equipment.
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Same here. Particularly using the App if that helps…
Yes (but) the power (amps (watts)) consumed with audio equipment is very small & any EMI from the cable will be low. Additionally the twists in the 3 (or 2) conductors in a un-screened cable will reduces it anyhow. I suspect this was a consideration by Naim when they designed the PowerLine so I take it that it was not deemed as required.
But I earned my spur’s in the marine industry & screening & EMI/RFI suppression was always part of stnd military spec, hence why my power cables are screened, except two PL Lites.