THE ORIGIN OF GOMER CABLE

    So here is the story.  Chris VH designed a DIY cable that use braiding....so much braiding, that when I finished a cable, I had a few nice fat blisters.  This cable was an incredible boon to the DIY world because you were able to make some really awesome cables for relatively little money.  All they took were a whole lot of patience and the desire to punish your fingers.  I'll admit, his cable recipe sounded really good (in both cases), but I hated all the effort that had to be put into it.  Yes, I will be the first to admit that I was lazy.  The idea was thrown around about just twisting together the 27 pairs, but the idea was refuted mainly by Jon Risch on a couple of point.  I will try to paraphrase his points ( Jon, if you read this, please correct me if I misquoted you).

  1. By twisting all the wire together, you will not be able to maintain the symmetry thus introducing cable noise.  With the Chris VH cables,  the wires are equally inside and outside the cable.   This will not be able to be maintained with twisting the bunch of wire.

  2. The total cable needs to be tightly held together.  If not, then you may  get a "generator type whine."  This tight twist cannot easily be accomplished with such a large bunch of wire

  3. If a tight enough twist was reached with the large amount of wire, then the copper would be more like be overstrained and the copper crystal matrix would be ruined.   By damaging the copper, the sound quality would be damaged.

    Mr. Risch had some very valid points, so I ended up reworking the cable design to solve all the problems he brought up.   The result used several steps of counter twisting.  By doing this, the wires were now in a uniform symmetry, were in a tight configuration, and were probably less strained than in a tightly made Chris VH speaker cable.  With the little help of Eyespy's humor, the cable was named GOMER CABLE.  The name was funny, so I kept it. 

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