19: I'll Take The Gold-free Extra-Oxygen Cable Please

Tackling two types of common cable, Speaker cable and HDMI cables. HDMI some obsess over gold plating; Speaker cable some obsess over OFC. Which is worth the extra money or are neither? Hardcore audiophiles may be upset by the contents of this episode.
With Ben Alexander and John Chidgey.

Articles about the show:

• IPv6: An Unreachable Wall
• The MOD Tracker Scene

Oxygen-Free Copper:

• OFC Cables
• Standard Cable
• Oxygen-Free Copper
• Skin Effect

Gold Plating:

• Golden Rules (PDF)
• Mohs scale of hardness
• HDMI

Examples:

• 25W bookshelf speaker
• HDMI
• I2C

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