Home Cable Asylum

Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys.

Re: Since I started the mess...

I owe an explanation.

Ok.

When you are evaluating the subtle effects that cables impart on the sound of the system introducing an equalizer of any quality is cheating the rules.

Cheating the rules? What rules? I thought there was only one rule: The enjoyment of listening to music. Where can I find these other rules you say are being cheated on?

There is an urge is to change the tonal character of the system just because you can.

Can, and do. Why do you think people keep trying new components? New interconnects? New speaker cables? New tubes? What's the purpose of this other than to chnage the tonal character of the system?

We could start another holly war on the merrits of EQ.

Why should there be any sort of holy war? Are you trying to equate yourself with the likes of the Taliban and others who are wholly intolerant of other peoples' personal preferences?

(which i am a strong oponent of because of their inherent distortion of the group delay of the system)

Well thank God we live in a country celebrates individuality and the freedom to make individual choices for ourselves. And if we could just bring a bit more of that spirit here, I wouldn't be writing this in the first place.

But remember that holly war will not help to win or lose the issue on cables.

There is no "issue" to win except with ourselves. Whatever cable gets you where you want to be is the only one that counts. And more importantly, it only counts for YOU and no one else.

What jitter did is, he admitted that he did not care about what cables do because he just nulls them out with his trust EQ.

He admitted no such thing. He admitted that he hasn't experienced any difference in cables so he doesn't worry about them. How the hell can he null out something which he admits he can't hear?

The other day upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again to day
Gee I wish he'd go away.

--Shel "Jitter" Silverstein

Based on that he tries to convince the rest of us that we should not care either.

Well your "that" wasn't there to begin with so he clearly wasn't basing it on "that."

And how exactly did he try and convince anyone that they should not care either? It's not anything I recall seeing. But I could have overlooked it. Would you care to substantiate that with a direct quote?

Now if he is a lucky and can afford the chello he does less harm than some of the gazzilion band monsters from the 80s.

He seems to be pretty content with what he's got now. I'd call that lucky.

I find it very ironic that Mtrycrafts was run out of here because of his annoying habit of trying to save people from themselves. Yet that's pretty much what you're doing here. Oh, but of course you have The Truth® on your side so that makes it ok.

But you can not complain about the texture of your chateau briand after you put it through the meatgrinder.

And the Asylum would be a better place if people weren't harrassed or ridiculed for getting their personal satisfaction by putting their Chateau Brion through a meat grinder.

se





This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  Schiit Audio  


Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
  • Re: Since I started the mess... - Steve Eddy 23:04:28 01/04/02 (0)


You can not post to an archived thread.