Here in the uk Chord also tend to use ‘normal’ cables at demos. At the last show I went to they were using the unmodified Chord Company Signature cables (no relation to Chord Electronics) to connect Blu2 to Dave. When I first got my Blu2 I also used unmodified cables for a long time and I was very happy with the large improvement in sound over Dave alone.
As marcmccalmont says, it really is a matter of not missing what you never had. With a normal cable you will be happy with the great sound of the blu2/scaler. Although having said that there is one person I have met, Crgreen, who was never happy with the blu2/mscaler sound right from the word go.
Only if you try what is suggested will you see what is possible. One person came to my house with the Chord Signature bnc cables he had been very happy using with his blu2/mscaler. These cables cost more than my cables. It took him only a few minutes of trying my cables to see what he had been missing and he ordered a pair.
But it’s not about having expensive cables. The ferrites really do work just as marcmccalmont has said and many guys buy expensive cables and then load them with ferrites. It’s a great offer that marcmccalmont has made to you and you owe it to your ears to take him up on it and have a go.
I used to think that surely Chord would demo their blu2/mscaler with the best cables to make it sound as good as possible hence why they use standard (albeit expensive) cables but now I know better.
