Stellavox Introduces a New State of the Art Amplifier IDEM Monoblocks

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(...) Herve wrote an article for Stereophile in the September 2001 edition which was about conventional cable reflections (Impedance Matching in Cables; Myth or Reality?). this was before there was any darTZeel the company or any mention of the concept of the 'zeel' interface. (...)

If source for technical expertise is just Stereophile or TAS, perfect ...

But sorry IMO ignoring facts does not prove anything.

See the factual data:

Meridian used 75 ohm analogue output modules primarily in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, These modules were intended to be used with 75 Ω terminated cables and loads, in line with broadcast and instrumentation practice of the time.

In the 1970s–early 1980s, Meridian (very much influenced by studio, broadcast, and measurement engineering) experimented with:

• Impedance-matched analogue transmission
• Controlled cable behaviour
• Reduced HF ringing and RF ingress over longer runs

75 Ω was a broadcast standard (shared with video), not an audiophile convention. The idea was to treat the analogue signal path as a transmission line, not a lumped circuit.

This is conceptually similar to what BBC, Neve, Studer, and broadcast video engineers were doing at the time.

Surely the subject was much debated in UK magazines such as HiFi News, disputing the pro and contra of such option. BTW they were just replicating technical talk of the 30's (addressing audio, surely, the origin comes from the telegraph around 1850) .

(...) connecting dots the 'zeel' was the answer to Herve's viewpoint on conventional cables.

And most of all a way to have the limelight focused at him. At a moment people spent thousands in cables, an high-end manufacturer was telling that a cable costing a few tens was better!

 

[Mike Lavigne]

If source for technical expertise is just Stereophile or TAS, perfect ...

But sorry IMO ignoring facts does not prove anything.

See the factual data:

Meridian used 75 ohm analogue output modules primarily in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, These modules were intended to be used with 75 Ω terminated cables and loads, in line with broadcast and instrumentation practice of the time.

In the 1970s–early 1980s, Meridian (very much influenced by studio, broadcast, and measurement engineering) experimented with:

• Impedance-matched analogue transmission
• Controlled cable behaviour
• Reduced HF ringing and RF ingress over longer runs

75 Ω was a broadcast standard (shared with video), not an audiophile convention. The idea was to treat the analogue signal path as a transmission line, not a lumped circuit.

This is conceptually similar to what BBC, Neve, Studer, and broadcast video engineers were doing at the time.

Surely the subject was much debated in UK magazines such as HiFi News, disputing the pro and contra of such option. BTW they were just replicating technical talk of the 30's (addressing audio, surely, the origin comes from the telegraph around 1850) .



And most of all a way to have the limelight focused at him. At a moment people spent thousands in cables, an high-end manufacturer was telling that a cable costing a few tens was better!

ok. i have zero opinion about the technical. not my thing. just telling a back story.

 

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ok. i have zero opinion about the technical. not my thing. just telling a back story.

Please see my point was not just the technical, it was mostly the time line.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Please see my point was not just the technical, it was mostly the time line.

i never suggested that Herve had any unique technical cable viewpoint, or was an inventor of anything. nor do i think that. it's not anything i care about or have an interest in knowing.

 

[Porsche]

gotta love audiophiles

 

[andromedaaudio]

an high-end manufacturer was telling that a cable costing a few tens was better!

That was probably my nephew