Rendezvous Feedback 30 ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine number of sonic delights available. They then realize they need to work for better quality. I call this the “Vienna effect.” Once you have been to Vienna, and you have attended concerts there for a week, forget it! But of course it need not be specifically Vienna. There are other cities with great concert halls, but when I spend a week in Vienna — as I regularly do, with all kinds of concerts, all kinds of rehearsals, all kinds of training, opera, classical music, it opens your ears in a way <strong>that</strong> makes you hungry to retrieve <strong>that</strong> sound again. The basis for many designs I’ve made in my life is to make the sound better, and more “Viennalike,” if I may call it <strong>that</strong>. UHF: Do you have any new ideas you hope to have the opportunity to develop? AJV: Yes, I’ve just finished a project called 3T, a new set of cables. UHF: Can you disccuss it? AJV: Yes, certainly. Most people who have looked into cables — if they understand anything of it at all — have concentrated on electron transmission. But it’s not just electrons <strong>that</strong> move in a cable, it’s electromagnetic fields. By concentrating only on the first part, electron transmission, the second part is comp<strong>let</strong>ely forgotten, or not even recognized. If you make a conductor, focusing on both, you may not have a perfect conductor, and there might be some resistance, but you have a much better technology than if you focused on just one property. Let me propose an example. If you are looking for a lady to marry, imagine <strong>that</strong> you had decided only one thing, <strong>that</strong> she must be precisely 1m85 tall. You’ve focused on just one property, but <strong>that</strong> doesn’t mean you will have a happy marriage. It is the balance of properties <strong>that</strong> can make the best match. Does she have the same style as you have, does she like the same food? The more you have in common, the better the story will work out. UHF: Why have some aspects of design, then, been ignored for so many years? AJV: Because some people don’t care, or because they find the subject too complicated, or because they simply don’t have the necessary knowledge, or perhaps because they couldn’t find the right materials to use. Being aware of the problem is one thing, finding the solution is another. UHF: And you’ve been working toward the solution. AJV: Yes. It’s cost me two years of thinking — not making anything, just thinking. Then I said to my manufacturer, if you do this, it will work. I’ve given the resulting cables to friends, and to some very critical people, and the results were optimistic. They said, “Please continue, because this is what we want.” After they had listened, if they reconnected the cables they had before, they were just rubbish. UHF: This sounds like great news. AJV: I think so. It’s good news not only for replay, but also for recording, because if the recording is better, then the replay will be better too. UHF: Certainly we’re dependent on the quality of the recording we’re listening to. AJV: Yes. I’ll give you some of the properties of the product. First, there’s no oxydation. It does not suffer from metal fatigue. There is a very god strain relief, so you can pull on it and it won’t break. The structure is amorphous. This is better than a crystal structure, because crystals have boundaries. It is stable at high temperature, and it can handle much higher temperatures than regular cable. there is no electroplating. There is no chemical or mechanical aging. It’s very flexible, but it doesn’t age when you flex it. There is an extremely low number of internal barriers or boundaries. That means the cable has an extremely long lifespan with no change in sound quality. It has a very short run-in time, a minimum of two hours, up to six hours. It produces an extremely high resolution without any harshness, which means sharp “esses” comp<strong>let</strong>ely disappear. You might think there is frequency range missing, but it is crystal barriers <strong>that</strong> produce the sharp “s” sound. The most amazing thing is <strong>that</strong> sonically — not by measurement but by listening — you can hear very clear information. If you listen to strings, for example, they are very lifelike, just because of the range between 2 kHz and 10 kHz. It is really amazing.
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