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In Reply to: Cabling... the weakest link in everyone's system? posted by gme109 on May 31, 2012 at 18:15:30:
You have an interesting point of view. Here are a few considerations that truly surprised me.
1. Different cable materials sound different. Not only the dielectric and geometry sound different, but the materials of the wire make a difference. A dramatic example is the van den Hul carbon intercons. They allow you to hear the omnipresent metallic contribution, by removing it, even from one piece of interconnect. Listening to them as an alternate point of reference might surprise people as to the magnitude of the difference in the nature of the sound.
2. Light pipes. It's remarkable that converting the electrical signal to light (still analog), passing it through a light pipe and then converting it back to an electrical signal can outperform most implementations of simply connecting the source and load via direct wire. This is really food for thought for those who think that cable doesn't matter.
3. The RCA system is poorly designed. Not only the connectors, but the type of system. Krell's CAST system is a more elegant solution to connecting components.
4. In my experience, the higher performance the system, the more important cables become. Entry level systems or many HT systems don't benefit that much from cable swaps. You may be able to hear it, but it's not earth shattering. A delicately balanced high performace system can be profoundly impacted by cabling. I feel that many of the naysayers probably lack first hand experience with these effects.
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