http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/digital/messages/13/132468.html
please read ....this explains it far better than I can. As in all walks of life there are people who will try to make a fast buck. Look at all the so called hi end cables available for a few dollars on ebay. This is the opposite end of the market where extremely cheap cables are being passed off as good ones. If your uncertain about cables and are able to make four solder connections look up the recipies I've placed in the DIY section. These are cheap [for the most part] and easy to build. Once you have built your own cheap cable [that has a performance of a $100 cable] you can then decide if cables have any effect....if not this only tells you that the cable your using has no effect in that system you can't hear the effect the cables having the systems resolution is to low to and therefore the system is masking any changes. this of course goes for any cable if you can't hear the effects the only thing it means is that you can't hear the effects. You can't extrapolate the results to all cables or make any other generalisations. Its easy to make two cables that are exactly the same and then make one sound different...all you do is add a capacitor and a resistor in series across the signal and ground of the cable...transparent do this if you have ever wondered whats inside the little box. Just because I'm writing this does not mean I'm trying to convince you either way nor am I bothered if you can or can't hear any differences...its no skin off my nose. I was also a none believer for the first ten years in the hobby, it was only after hearing the inclusion of a top audioquest cable against the freebies I was using that made me realise quite how much music they were emasculating. My problem was I could never afford the inflated prices ..even $100 was more than I could afford....that was when I decided to see if I could make a cable that was better than the freebie types the rest is history [25 years]. Its rare that I find a system that does not respond to a "good" cable [note not "expensive"]. There are components that are immune to the effect thought this is due more often to the connection regime [plug type]causesing rather more strangulation of the signal than any positive effect the cable can make. A recent example of this .... I was asked to fit a set of rca sockets to a naim cdx to allow the owner to run a set of rca-rca cables to his pre rather than using an adaptor to convert the din5 to rca. Once fitted the cable was swapped back to the din5 and then to rca sockets....it was abundantly clear that the din5 and adaptor was taking away a huge chunk of the music information. As an experiment we used a very good ic cable and his stock cable, first both were listened to on the din5/adaptor...there was little to no difference. Then we did the same on the new rca sockets, it was obvious the two cables were very different,one being markedly superior. So much so he purchased my silver gold cable. If you want to check pm Artist on Zerogain.com -- zanash Acoustician and builder of interesting cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zanash's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12157 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
