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In Reply to: Re: OK, here's one posted by rich121 on December 9, 2006 at 00:18:40:
It depends upon so many synergistic factors involving not just your electronic components, but the electronic atmosphere in which they function and even the mechanical situation (vibrational). So it appears that nobody can tell you with absolute certainty.FWIW, I think you are right to shop hard and be skeptical. My budget is so amazingly low compared to yours, but I'd do it anyway. So I ended up DIYing a great deal of my cabling. This helped me test out concepts and configurations, learn about my own system/situation and listening preferences, and decide on where to go next - all while saving much money!
That doesn't mean that I stopped there by any means. I just started there and found my way to what I want. There is one cable builder whose stuff is in several places in my system now, but he's custom building too. So it isn't all about money or me for my situation either.
Cabling is so important that it's amazing how bad great equipment can sound because of it. I won't go into the theory, as I bet you've heard it all.
Here's what I found:
1) strongest impact in my system was speaker cabling
2) second strongest turns out to be AC cabling and all the tweaking that goes with it makes that a rival for first
3) ICs make a definite difference, but the effects aren't usually as pronounced as the above
4) ICs can even make a difference in eliminating "digititis", or at least the RFI intermodulation effects that are confused with that term.There are several recipes for Cat 5 speaker cabling. The most difficult is Chris Ven Haus' original massive recipe; the simplest are the simple versions of TNT-audio.com's recipes. Both work well in my system and in others, as you'll read here, and both permit experimentation with cumulative wire gauges for biwiring. Neither is truly "cheap" any longer, but by audio standards they are all dirt cheap!
As for ICs, assuming you want analog, there are again many recipes. CVH has one that is so well thought of that it's foolish not to consider it a starting and potentially end point. But the easiest by far is Greg Weaver's Silver Signal Tape (or the copper version), also a good (though not necessarily stellar) starting point for DIY.
At this point in my system I've replaced both with Beryllium Copper speaker and ICs by Joe Mazzaglia of auricleaudiodesign@hotmail.com and I'm very very pleased with it. Again, custom built and not for everyone, but very detailed and smooth and not expensive by audio standards.
I've got at least 5 different designs of PCs in my system and won't even go into that for now, other than to urge you to consider your power cords as much as anything else.
Just some thoughts..... YMMV
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