ry_goody
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So I was looking to buy a new headphone cable and was trying to decide between headphile.com and ALO audio.
Headphile has always seemed to me to just be a guy making audio and headphone cables out of materials that, people who believe in cables, know work well. That being just high purity solid core silver and high purity copper, no tricks or fancy buzzwords. Just plain old, single strand, high purity, solid core, copper and silver in a nice casing, done for you, so you don't have to do that, and then sold at a fairly reasonable price.
But then I was looking at ALO and there fancy reference 16 cable http://www.aloaudio.com/reference-16-headphone-cable and it seems to me they have took a bunch of high purity, fibered copper cable, some of it silver plated, and woven a ton of it together, 8 fiber strands each way. They then sell this as there flagship? This throws up a bunch of red flags to me. For one, isn't superior sonic performance found only in solid core silver cables and not silver plated cables? Then secondly, isn't adding unnecessary gauge to an electrical wire detrimental to the signal?
Then I stumbled across this on ALO http://www.aloaudio.com/cables/home-audio/digital $200 USB cable. Seriously? Digital is Digital. Thats when I had to think ALO is being over the top and crossing the scam line.
But I post this because I'm not certain. Anyone have any experience with this or any thoughts?
Headphile has always seemed to me to just be a guy making audio and headphone cables out of materials that, people who believe in cables, know work well. That being just high purity solid core silver and high purity copper, no tricks or fancy buzzwords. Just plain old, single strand, high purity, solid core, copper and silver in a nice casing, done for you, so you don't have to do that, and then sold at a fairly reasonable price.
But then I was looking at ALO and there fancy reference 16 cable http://www.aloaudio.com/reference-16-headphone-cable and it seems to me they have took a bunch of high purity, fibered copper cable, some of it silver plated, and woven a ton of it together, 8 fiber strands each way. They then sell this as there flagship? This throws up a bunch of red flags to me. For one, isn't superior sonic performance found only in solid core silver cables and not silver plated cables? Then secondly, isn't adding unnecessary gauge to an electrical wire detrimental to the signal?
Then I stumbled across this on ALO http://www.aloaudio.com/cables/home-audio/digital $200 USB cable. Seriously? Digital is Digital. Thats when I had to think ALO is being over the top and crossing the scam line.
But I post this because I'm not certain. Anyone have any experience with this or any thoughts?