joncourage;144968 Wrote: > People better informed than I have said that the basic 12 gauge > electrical zip cable you can get at Home Depot will sound as good as > anything else. > > At virtually no cost, I'd say probably worth a try. > > Another example I recently experience first-hand was a comparison among > three digital coax spdif cables in a decent system. A $300 cable, a $50 > cable, and a cable that came with someone's cable TV box I think. About > a dozen audio enthusiasts agreed the freebie cable sounded best. Go > figger. > > Like I said above tho, I have noticed a significant difference > upgrading from basic Best Buy-type 16g bulk cable, to Audioquest Type > 4, then to AQ Rockefeller. With each change, I noticed several > improvements, as did my wife, who is the ultimate skeptic and tin-ear. > OTOH, I noticed no difference between the famed Kimber D-60 and my $50 > Cable Solutions Canare digital coax cable. YMMV, and it probably > depends to some degree on your electronics and speakers. Don't get too > bogged down in the intense rhetoric and debate that will follow from > someone raising these issues - experiment to the degree your budget > allows, and have a good time with it! When you buy used, you're fairly > well assured that you can always pass your purchase along with little > loss. > > Given the source of many of the "makes-no-difference" opinions though, > I've got to say if you have the patience it seems worth comparing > no-frills cable to "hi-end" cable. You can always sell the hi-end > stuff if you don't hear enough of a difference.
Unfortunately, when testing cables, there is no way to tell what influence is due to the connectors (type, fit, general state). Just pushing in the sleve a little to give better grip can give more of a difference to the sound than another cable. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28529 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
