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Not trying to change your belief - simply relying on facts.Sorry but as far as speaker (headphone) cables i am a believer.....
This was my original review of the MEE P1 - note that since then I've upgraded my calibration files (so the graphs would change especially from 5 kHz up), but this data still shows consistency - same rig, same calibration file. You can clearly see no measurable difference with cables used other than volume.
Cable Changes
I suspected that MEEs custom dynamic driver would be pretty stable – especially as far as impedance goes. While I couldn't measure this, I could measure the effect of different cables to see what if any changes there would be. So for this exercise I measured the included OFC and SPC cables, the FiiO RC-SE1B cable (with a balanced to SE adaptor), the ALO Tinsel, and also an OFC Trinity cable. As you can see from the graph below, there were very slight changes in actual volume (which indicates slight changes in impedance of the cables). But when volume matched, the cables all show the same frequency response. So again – if anyone indicates a more expensive cable as giving better sound-stage, vibrancy, bass/mids/treble etc – simply smile, ignore them, and adjust the volume. It should net the same results.
Three images show:
- Raw data 5 cables
- Left to right - FiiO SPC, Trinity OFC, ALO Tinsel SPC, MEE SPC
- All cables after volume matching
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