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True, but easily accounted for by moving your listening position relative to speaker position.
I can't believe I did not think of that!
True, but easily accounted for by moving your listening position relative to speaker position.
Magnetic South. Rick Schultz moved from Canada to Texas, and the company is High Fidelity Cables. Actually, Magnetic Conduction uses magnets to eliminate diffusion of the signal and focuses it. No claims of molecular alignment, but definitely a cleaner sound. Noise is something that you don't realize until it is gone.
I reviewed about $7,000 worth of his speaker cables, power cables and interconnects, and even on an "affordable" system, there was a clearly an improvement of sound quality.
So this means the old cable you used for comparisons were flawed?
20 years ago Thorsten Loesch of AMR and iFi had some DIY cable ideas (Thorsten, AKA 'Kuei Yang Wang' on www.diyaudio.com)Now I'm lazy because I'm satisfied! I wished here was an audio pal or club with some crazy persons like us, who says: Matthias, you have to try this!
A little trip down memory lane. My Theta Cobalt 307 DAC.
Best Wishes Mike!
True. I find cables make a difference but our ears adapt easily to the slightly different sound. It is fun to make your own cables. Most important for me is the connection. Made some rca interconnects and the plugs i bought are just awful, a bummer because the cable sounds good. I am intrigued with blue jeans and townshend audio cable.Hey Robert,
you know that I was teasing... Cables are a great topic to raise audiophile blood pressure!
But I'm on your side: If the cable has no technical flaws, it should deliver.
Connectors can shield, and should have a very low ohmic resistance, especially in the long term. Some are saying a low mass sounds good - don't know.
I make my own cables, because the nice ones have ridiculous prices. I buy the cable from Sommer Cable which sells most of their products to broadcasting studios and recording/mixing studios. I chose by resistance and capacitance, and used insulation material. My connectors are from Neutrik. So nothing too fancy, because it's diy, but I think on a very high level.
One day I'll try silver solid core in PTFE tunes, and thin copper wire with silver coating in PTFE, Eichman bullet plugs.
Now I'm lazy because I'm satisfied! I wished here was an audio pal or club with some crazy persons like us, who says: Matthias, you have to try this!
Would be great!
Cheers
Edit:
Some of the famous belden cable would be also on my list, of cause!
Aaron Diehl on the piano. Worth checking out his "Space Time Continuum" album. But he's best live, especially with CMcLS. They did a fun show at SFJAZZ last season.
Cables do make all the difference in the world.
@Paladin79 can attest to this as the resident specialist.
He once built me the best AES/EBU XLR2XLR cable I ever had (still use) and even compared to very, very expensive others wins all the time.
As all my musical date goes to my DAC trough it, the difference between one or the other is easy to determinate.
He is indeed a valuable asset to this community.
I am agnostic about cable discussions, if you think it sounds better, who am I to argue. Likewise, if you support the opposite, good for you.
I say enjoy what you have, enjoy the Music.
Yes, this is the most important!I say enjoy what you have, enjoy the Music.
Thank you very much!Welcome aboard @MatthiasP