hierobryan
Head-Fier
...the difference in resistance between a single 5ft headphone cable (200 milliohms) and a 1/4"-3.5mm adapter + 12" 3.5mm-3.5mm + 3ft 3.5mm-3.5mm + 4" 3.5mm-4.4mm + 4" 4.4mm-2.5mm + 5" 2.5mm-4.4mm + 5ft headphone cable is only 800 milliohms (1 ohm total)? These are the values I measured.
Whether a high end $2000 multi-strand 24AWG cable or $5 single-strand 26AWG Wal-Mart cable, both will use conductors with total resistances in the milliohms. For a 4ft cable you would need a single strand of 34AWG to even reach the point where the resistance changes by 1 ohm. Even increasing a single 24AWG from 4ft to 20ft only changes it by 0.4 ohms. The resistance change is far less when using stranded conductors. Besides a less "microphonic" cable material, aren't you mainly paying for things that don't affect sound like thick insulation, pretty sheath, pretty connectors, hand soldering, etc? Look at how little the whopping 10 ohm adapter changed the sound for the Truthear Red, which is a tiny 17.5 ohm load: Truthear Red graph
What am I missing here? Wouldn't it make more sense to EQ by a couple db instead of buying an expensive cable?
Whether a high end $2000 multi-strand 24AWG cable or $5 single-strand 26AWG Wal-Mart cable, both will use conductors with total resistances in the milliohms. For a 4ft cable you would need a single strand of 34AWG to even reach the point where the resistance changes by 1 ohm. Even increasing a single 24AWG from 4ft to 20ft only changes it by 0.4 ohms. The resistance change is far less when using stranded conductors. Besides a less "microphonic" cable material, aren't you mainly paying for things that don't affect sound like thick insulation, pretty sheath, pretty connectors, hand soldering, etc? Look at how little the whopping 10 ohm adapter changed the sound for the Truthear Red, which is a tiny 17.5 ohm load: Truthear Red graph
What am I missing here? Wouldn't it make more sense to EQ by a couple db instead of buying an expensive cable?