1940s headshell wiring vs. modern leads

[louped garouv]

The cables comming off the head shell that attach to the cartridge body are from the 1940s, as thin as a strand of hair.

When ABing from a normal headshell with the stock cable from the cartridge body to the head shell, to this rare cable conected from the cartridge body to the headshell you can really hear the difference.

The Cartridge we used and ab-ed against was the Grado 200 on a normal headshel setup with the normal cable, and a headshell with a Grado 200 with this rare 1940s cabling on the head shell.

IMHO We liked the headshell with the 1940s cabling better... much cleaner, more output and more detail it is amazing what just the cable change in this portion of the system will do for your clarity.

http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...6&postcount=12


recently a thread was brought back from the dead...
and this caught my mind for a second...

What could this difference be attributable to, from a science standpoint?

i can hear the gallery now saying things like, the production process was better then -- but was it, i would think the purity or alloy composition could be matched today...

what gives?

[Hoerninger]

We will not have this cable from 1940 and can't proof.
Bad contacts and voodoo come into mind.
Well ... I do not care.
___________
Peter

[louped garouv]

the voodoo angle had been discussed elsewhere,

the installer was trying to sell the upgrade on another forum
around the time that post was originally made...

some folks were saying that the copper was absolutely "better" back then,
as in more copper and less alloy metals...

but others were saying, just buy modern cable with the copper content you want...

i told them to search for the WE thread covered copper wire on EBay, it
shows up often there for relatively little money...




i was just wondering what some of the relatively sane folks here thought of it...



i contended that dampening the headshells may be better than using 1940s WE cloth covered wire...

but i have not tried it, so don't really know either...
maybe soon i will buy some old cloth covered wire for this purpose...