are all cables and technology capable of transporting both sound and electrical waves like cables used in usb ?
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Theoretically, yes. Everything is just an electric signal inside a cable, even the “sound” is just the waveform of the sound represented as a voltage, which then gets converted into sound waves in a speaker.
However, different cables are built for different applications. For example, you have to be careful to not catch too much noise when you use high frequency (in the MHz range) in cables, so those cables typically use shielding and other measures. And then, there are different protocols for sending data, which also often translate into different cable types.
What do you mean sound and electrical waves? Sound through a wire is an electrical waveform, and can travel though pretty much any conductive wire
Electrical cabling can only carry electrical signals. There are no cables for home use or even broadly in commercial use (other than maybe stethoscope “cables”) that are designed to carry sound waves. Cables that carry video signals don’t carry “picture waves” either – they all carry electrical waves that are converted forms of whatever the original signals are.
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