armyowalgreens wrote:
I ask this because I've gotten two very distinct answers.
1. It's worth every penny.
2. It's a complete rip-off.
In the simple, I spent some $380.00 bucks on my headphone cables and I got's no complaints. A hundred and twenty-five bucks of that was for physical appearance stuff, sheathing and splitter. Dang but I do love the look of my custom headphone cables.
In a question such as this, there's only one thing that counts, your listening pleasure. Me? I'm a very happy camper.
A word to the wise, if you're new to the listening game, you may or may not pick up a difference as cables aren't a night and day difference because they dwell in the world of nuances. My experience, the sound stage was wider. Cords on a piano opened up. The single strike of a string, had a longer decay. The tap of a cymbal both opened up and had a longer decay. But, over all, the improvement only works on about one percent of the overall listening experience. The point, is one percent worth it to you? It is to me. And here's the rub, your mind may not be in tune with what you're listening to, so you won't take benefit of that one percent. No, it's not a rip off but yes, you might not pickup on the difference.
A question to ponder before adding cables to the mix, the gear the cables are being connected to. If the gear you have is low-fi, the gear isn't necessarily going be sensitive enough to pass forward the differences. A couple of questions, what gear are you using for playback and are you running your songs through your computer and if so, what format are you ripping in? You need to be ripping in WAV; 1.41 Mbps.
The difference between AKG-702s and AKG-702s with ALO cable is 140 dollars.
Oh, and a suggestion,
Sennheiser HD650's and a couple hundred hours of use to break them in or to loosen them up.