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I got a new amplifier recently that is upmarket from what I have owned before. I had a pair of cables whos brand will not be mentioned, on loan to a friend which had been a cable that I had used happily for several years. My philosophy on cables has been to buy something well made, but did not buy into substantial sonic differences. When my new amplifier arrived, I used lamp cord to hook it up and happily listened for a few days. I finally collected my other cables from my friend and inserted them into my system late Sunday night. By Tuesday I was being irritated by what I would describe as glare in the treble. On Wednesday it continued and by the afternoon it finally occurred to me that the cables had changed. I went back to the lamp cord (cheap 14ga generic twisted copper) and was amazed that the glare was gone!I have since gone and bought cables in the $200 tier as well as $600 tier and I can easily hear a difference between these, and the differences are trade offs not one being clearly better than the other.
I will tell you that I cannot hear any difference between Tidal at 320kbps and lossless on this new system, and I don't really want to hear a difference in cables. I always considered cables as sort of voodoo science. But my opinion is changing fast!
My equipment up to this point has been solid, so it is not like I was using BestBuy clearance gear but I suppose it is possible this is the first system I have had that can resolve the differences. Maybe my specific amplifier for some reason is sensitive?
Not sure, but I am going to keep playing.
LA
Edits: 08/12/16
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Topic - OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - Les Anderson 14:45:12 08/12/16 (18)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - Jeffrey Lee 11:27:17 08/16/16 (1)
- I was thinking that exact same thing! nt. - Cougar 07:08:19 08/17/16 (0)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - fantja 07:08:09 08/16/16 (0)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - John Elison 06:09:42 08/16/16 (6)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - Palustris 09:41:54 08/16/16 (5)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - Duster 13:22:49 08/16/16 (1)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - John Elison 13:57:40 08/16/16 (0)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - John Elison 10:20:16 08/16/16 (2)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - Palustris 10:26:19 08/16/16 (1)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - John Elison 11:02:28 08/16/16 (0)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - SgreenP@MSN.com 07:03:53 08/15/16 (0)
- I feel for 'ya, Les - bcowen 14:31:14 08/13/16 (1)
- RE: I feel for 'ya, Les - Tidycat1 21:57:57 08/13/16 (0)
- Dang! I hate that. - axolotl 12:52:43 08/13/16 (0)
- And that's just speaker cable!!!... - musetap 21:30:40 08/12/16 (0)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - DeeCee 16:30:59 08/12/16 (2)
- RE: OMG, I can hear a difference in speaker cables. Damn it! - Les Anderson 19:38:43 08/12/16 (1)
- No Problem (nt) - DeeCee 09:16:29 08/13/16 (0)
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