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In Reply to: RE: Cables used by manufacturers posted by Mike K on September 25, 2014 at 21:52:41
I'm not sure that it matters what associated components a designer uses. Both my speaker and amp manufacturer are small companies and the designer in both cases make and sell their own cables. I bought the power cord for my amp from the amp designer, and speaker cable from my speaker designer. Both seem to work quite well. I've had many discussions about source gear with my speaker designer and for him any source gear can be used as long as it is a constant between engineering changes.Maximizing cables and specific pieces of gear are important to one who is building a system, but manufacturers focus on improving their products.
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.., and/or try to sell complete, synergistic systems. Others will make recommendations for aftermarket cables. The smaller, more esoteric companies are more likely than large ones to make cable recommendations IME.The cables that many manufacturers include with their gear are often cheap, generic things that don't add much to a component's retail cost. Aftermarket cables can yield noticeable sonic improvements that are mostly associated with better, tighter connections and more effective shielding, IMO.
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Tighter connections?
Tighter than what?
Damn those electrons!
Firm connections provide better electrical contact and better power delivery than loose connections. If you don't believe me, loosen up the battery connections on your vehicle and see what happens.Better cables and better cable connectors usually provide better, tighter connections IME. Tighter connections provide better power delivery and better signal transmission. You can hear the difference (or at least I can).
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And under high current draw as can be experienced with high power amplifiers, loose connections can result in heat (due to IR drop across the loose connections) with the potential for fire.
The best connections in very high current demand scenarios, while at the same time minimizing audiophool cable tweaking hazards, is to use no connector at all but instead, a welded large gauge captive cable.
I'm talking about heavy gauge captive power cords as used on some high power amplifiers.
A heavy gauge and well shielded captive cord would be a good thing.
It's nice to be able to remove a power cord before transporting a heavy amp from place to place however. A minor quibble perhaps, but worth considering...
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