TimT wrote: > Perhaps. Consider this: John Audiophile has just dropped $15,000 on a > pair of speakers, $7500 on amplification and playback. What > interconnects does he buy? $15 for a pair of 10-foot speaker cables? Or > does he spend $300 on a "name brand" pair? Maybe $300 won't buy him > better sound; but almost certainly, John A thinks, it won't buy him > worse sound. No question that John can afford to spend more. What would > you do? What does the "rational audiophile" do?
There are many brands of well made and very reasonably priced cables available. Mr. Audiophile can safely buy any of these cables for his system will no loss in fidelity. His total amount for all of the necessary wires and cables in the system need not be more than $300 to $500, depending on the length of the cables and wires. And that would really be only of interconnects and speaker wire - no fancy USB cables or power cords - both of which are completely fine with the stock cables. Added bonus: with all the money Mr. Audiophile saves he can buy something very nice for Mrs. Audiophile and the WAF of his new audio system will go way, way up! Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
