wild4sound
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What !
No counters ?
Say it is not so !
No counters ?
Say it is not so !
Thats whats seperates our two sides. Cable believers have no need to convert or question the other side. We're happy with our setups and generally have the mindset of "to each his own". Cable Atheist however seem to have a compulsive need to "be right" and to educate us "easily tricked - placebo prone - marketing victims".
^ Good read, thanks!
Unfortunately, although the first article describes that the electrical characteristics of different wire are different (no brainer), it does not present any information on whether this makes any audible difference.
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Nicely Said! But I'll add, If they want to use "LAMP CORD" for their speaker connections HAVE AT IT!!!!
Thats whats seperates our two sides. Cable believers have no need to convert or question the other side. We're happy with our setups and generally have the mindset of "to each his own". Cable Atheist however seem to have a compulsive need to "be right" and to educate us "easily tricked - placebo prone - marketing victims".
"I am here to fix ein cable, that's why they send me, I am expert..."
I guess i'm a cable atheist, as i've done my own experiments by making cables as bad as possible and only heard a difference when using single thin strands of copper for interconnects (one per channel...no shield) these sounded thin, quite literally, but SQ went right back up when using a few strands. I've totally debunked optical cables by shining them into the sockets from many inches away with no loss in SQ at all. I've totally debunked digital cables by using a single 1m strand of 0.1mm nichrome wire in place of a quality canare/belden pro quality type with no change in SQ. I've totally debunked power cables by using a quite nice one (some belden affair) then unplugging it mid song and my amp continued to play with no loss in SQ (uhm, until the caps ran dry).
If running the worst possible conditions i can do seems to not affect SQ, how will an expensive cable make things sound better? logic says it's won't, no science supports expensive cables, and the only people claiming expensive cables do work are either salesmen or middle aged lifestyle warriors who seem to practise in a form of audio homeopathy, neither exactly 'reliable'.
The long and short of it is that cables are a hugely profitable segment of the hifi market, a visual metaphor for sound quality whose aesthetics and composition help male consumers become more 'involved' in the audio chain - the esoteric metals and thick, braided covers lend their physicality to the observed sound itself as they loop between impenetrable black boxes. Add in cable geometries, dielectrics, battery biasing, plug types, and godknows what else, and cables transcend from simply carrying a signal from one measly PCB trace to another into ways for the male mind to see that which cannot be seen.
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wires sound different, it's subjective as to which is "better"
Nicely Said! But I'll add, If they want to use "LAMP CORD" for their speaker connections HAVE AT IT!!!!
Sorry, Colin, but that blather came across as completely meaningless.