I apologize for being a little long winded but it finally looks like I have a forum setting for my cable conversion.
I’m a noobie here but not a noobie to audio. I have been working, listening, building, collecting now for going on 35 years.
I remember when I purchased my first set of Soundlab Electrostatics, you know the big ones that swallow your room. I had a friend of mine over to listen. He owned a very exclusive, high end audio store in Phoenix and he immediately rejected what he was hearing, left my home, and came back an hour later with about $5,000 worth of cables. Solid silver, cryo treated, the works. We hooked up everything and we settled back with sound that was now worthy of listening to. He left with a smile on his face and a fat check in his wallet.
Fast forward 7 years and now 5.1 is the rage. I measured, counted, and realized I was going to need a second mortgage to purchase those cables that I so DESPERATELY needed to have in order to hear correctly. A friend of mine had a pair of Signal cables – Neutrik connectors, Canare GS6 cables, Canare speaker cables and to my reluctance, we rewired the system. I sat down to listen I’m sure was going to be a very inferior sound and I was stunned. There was NO difference.
The snake oil advocates say you can’t do double blind tests because you have to live with the setup and then swap the testing item out, listen to it, absorb it and then you will notice the change. I had lived with this system for 7 years, I think I would have noticed a change. For 2 months I swapped, cussed, tossed some more, cussed some more and ended up selling my pure silver cables on Audigon
Fast forward another 7 years. I now sit in a home theater with my beloved Soundlab Electrostatics listening to a spectacular sounding system with Neutrik, Switchcraft, Canare, and Mogami components. I was able to purchase much better SPEAKERS for surrounds, and centers, more powerful amps, not to mention, more music.
Read the Audio Critics’s 10 Biggest Lies in Audio. It’s my audio bible.