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post #16 of 24
6/15/04 at 11:39pm
Soon we gonna be seeing new Mr.T with gold, silver, platinum, copper wiring around his neck
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post #17 of 24
6/15/04 at 11:39pm
and paladium, and carbon
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post #18 of 24
6/16/04 at 12:10am
i'm just waiting for wires formed using carbon nanotubes.
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post #19 of 24
6/16/04 at 2:43am
Im sure uber expensive tin foil interconnects with a flashy name and looks will sound much better.
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post #20 of 24
6/16/04 at 6:59pm
I dont know about you guys but I want a Diamond optical cable, glass just doesn't cut it anymore
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post #21 of 24
6/18/04 at 12:20am
I'm requesting that my personal cable maker prepare a batch of Diamond crusted palladium/silver braided interconnects. I've heard a diamond crust is super anti-oxidant, but of course, it would be titanium wrapped and sealed in beeswax treated teflon, for extra shielding, flexability, and protection.
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post #22 of 24
6/18/04 at 9:25am
Thread Starter 
so jokes aside,

nobody has any idea why a cable would be made out of one of these exotic metals?
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post #23 of 24
6/18/04 at 10:50am
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Originally Posted by tomek
so jokes aside,

nobody has any idea why a cable would be made out of one of these exotic metals?
I do not know for sure, but I believe that you are right. It is all about marketing. The products have to be different if the manufacturers want to sell their high priced cables to people and if everyone uses oxygen free copper, no one is going to spend $100 more for 1 brand than the other. Companies are forced to use connectors with bling, exotic conductors and different construction. Kimber cable does not even use a shield on their braided cable, yet people pay 100's of dollars for it, because it is different that the conventional stuff. Bullet plugs, probably cost less than $10 to make and make absolutely no difference in sound quality, yet people have to have them and pay through the nose for it. If they cared enough about the connection, they wouldn't use an RCA connector at all, they would use a BNC or something else better. No other industry would pay the outrageous prices that audiophiles shell out.

Do companies pay $300 for power cords for their scopes, even though they need very accurate measurements? OK, maybe hospitals do use power products. Do companies spend $200 on cables, even though they can not afford to lose any data being transferred? Do companies use gold and silver cables?
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post #24 of 24
6/18/04 at 11:31am
I use gold alloy/gold plated cables.

I had top grade copper cables, I found the sound to be constrained, dark and rather "unneutral" even though they were supposed to be the "neutralesteststest!!!"

I tried silver, good high grade cables from a strong company and oh were these things strident in my system! Sure there was detail and the sound was not constrained by DANG did my ears want to bleed at times.

So then came these new cables...not constrained, not dark, much more neutral or balanced than my previous cables and they had a lushness to them that was both musical and appealing. Dynamics, resolution, clarity, bass, extended highs...these are what my cables provide. Biggie has heard them he can attest to this.

Now these new truly esoteric metals used, palladium, platinum, titanium, einsteinium, uberium etc...who knows how they will sound? I'm done cable hunting.
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