groovyd
Headphoneus Supremus
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Looks like the new LCD-X is alot like the old LCD-3 up high but with less bass down low.
... I was thinking of the platinum, but I auditioned a beautiful sounding cable with an incredably reasonable price, and quite different from my Wywires...
Ok, I'll take the bait...What is this beautiful sounding, reasonably priced cable?
Not sure if you re-faring to me , but i can tell that i don't need numbers to tell me if i hear a deference or not ,,
i bought wywire red cable for my LCD-X , and there was real improvement , not only me heard it but also my family and my friends , maybe we all imagine things , dont know
also i bought a silver dragon cable for my TH-900 ,, it ****ed up the sound stage ,, and the bass was over the top and the headphone was unusable, thankfully i could return it with no charge ,,
so my friend as you can see measurement dosent mean everything ,, only trust your ears ..
I don't bother about doctrinaire posts that say things like 'you can't hear a difference, because I can't see a difference on this piece of paper.' I have to trust my ears as I use them for a marginal living.
I don't bother about doctrinaire posts that say things like 'you can't hear a difference, because I can't see a difference on this piece of paper.' I have to trust my ears as I use them for a marginal living.
"I can't see a difference on a piece of paper" is not the same as "I see no difference on a piece of paper". One single repeatable measurement is all most of us look for, especially in the world of four to five figure cable prices. If there's a sound difference, surely there's a measurement in some way shape or form that reflects this.
Cables CAN make a difference - they can degrade sound quality. Check out the Monster Cable patch cord for bass guitars.
Well, they do make a dif with my guitar. And yes, if cables can degrade sound, you just probed the point.
This post is so silly I feel compelled to reply.
Any scientific measurement will tell you and everyone who cares to listen that the only real consideration in choosing something like a speaker cable( besides insuring that the connections are good and sturdy) is having a cable of sufficiently low resistance to avoid insertion loss. Insertion loss causes signal level to fall by a uniform amount across the frequency range, because a cable's resistance affects all frequencies equally. So the highs don't go first. Everything is diminished equally. You can counteract this effect by turning up your volume level, or by using a lower gauge wire. 11 gauge speaker wire will go out to 100 feet with no insertion loss at all, and it's not that expensive if you're buying something like Canare 4s11.
Read the audioholics article.
http://www.audioholics.com/audio-video-cables/speaker-cable-gauge
And then there's the Archimago article
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/06/measurements-speaker-cables-wires.html
There are others, but anyone who wants to view the data objectively, will find these two compelling and definitive. As for the others...
The Guitarworks article seems to reinforce many of my claims.
As for capacitance, how much is this a problem? How long a length, how much capacitance per ft? And to what degree are inexpensive cables more prone to have issues with this.
I kinda think that for most normal runs, using normal solid state amps this is not an issue in hi fi audio.
http://www.audioholics.com/audio-video-cables/speaker-cable-length-differences-do-they-
http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/06/measurements-speaker-cables-wires.html
With the stock headband, I couldn't listen more than about 20 minutes before I felt uncomfortable. No comfort issues now with the CF headband and it looks great too. I'm glad that I didn't sell my X because I'm really liking this headphone now.