Analog and digital interconnects work in entirely different ways. Analog music is transmitted as a complex waveform through the entire system, from the recorded medium to the speakers. Digital music is converted to data, a sequence of 1s and 0s, that must be decoded by the DAC (digital to analog converter) to recreate the original waveform of the music.

So far, we have established analog music is a complex waveform compared to digitized music. Transmission physics, dependencies, and limitations are format-dependent; the solutions are not all-inclusive.

Enter the four wisemen you may recognize: Oliver Heaviside, Hendrik Lorentz, Heinrich Hertz, and James Maxwell. Maxwell created classical electromagnetism, and Heaviside and Lorentz refined and created practical applications of Maxwell's work, amongst other contributions. Hertz's work is prevalent in the world. For example, the technical terms "Hz, kHz, MHz" are named for Hertz and are typically found on the specification page of stereo equipment manuals.

Now, we have the mathematics and physics to describe analog waveforms and how they interact along a wire/cable. The group delay is an efficient measurement for complex analog waveforms,  a Heaviside contribution to science. This simple principle allows a purposeful interpretation of complex music and speech as frequency blocks.   With this technique, we can measure velocity differences between groups.  

Group delay has an audible impact on amplified music and our cable design process. Group delay is more complex than our simplified description, as impedance, capacitance, resistance, and reactance vary over frequency and materials. It's known that waveforms don't travel at the same speed over cables.

 The components in your stereo have varying specifications in their manuals and often include industry measurements that obfuscate design issues. The electrical variation of system components adds to the performance degradation of poorly engineered cable designs. 

Science implies that identical cables replaying identical music will have measurable differences between varying amplifiers, preamps, and speakers. 

Physics and mathematics allow EnKlein to engineer analog interconnect solutions to reduce and remove these negative, undesirable interactions.