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BlueJeans Cable

Look, the discussion, voodoo, faux science, hype, and opinion aside. Ok, maybe I will state my opinion here, but not without some experimentation....ok lots of experimentation.....

I have tried silver, silver plated, copper. It has come twisted, insulated in bizarre materials, shielded and non, with every type of connector you can think of, including BNC's.

For interconnects, Bluejeans cable has their priorities in the correct place on several fronts. They recommend good shielding, appropriate to the usage, they use highquality copper coax for unbalanced, and they use Canare crimped connectors for unbalanced IC's.

There is a concept called 'good enough'. There is also proper balance paid to to things like capacitance, inductance, etc.

I went to the dark side. And I found some grossly expensive wires, some of which actually sounded pretty good. Then I wised up. Bluejeans Cable is a quality shop. They treat their customers very well. They ship quickly. Their work is consistently excellent.

I think most people get impressed with over engineering, and there are wires out there that will cost you as much as you can afford. But this I know. Right now I have pulled all the highpriced spread wires off my system, Cardas Cross, DH Labs (which are very good) Air Marix and Revelations, LAT, Mapleshade, etc. By no means did I try Nordost, which have an excellent reputation to go along with their prices. All over engineered, in my opinion. Nice features, whiz bang technology, and that mysterious voodoo mojo.

Bluejean's Belkin 1505F's sound great, at least at the 1 meter length I use. And for the balanced run, 11', the Belkin 1800F sounds better than a bunch I have tried at a hugh fraction of the pretender's cost.

Just go with sensible high quality and very good connectors. You will not need voodoo.

My two cents.

For Power cords, I use Moon Audio Green and DH Labs, all with regular Marinco and Wattgate terminations. They work great. I haven't quite worked out the shielded vs non yet, but it seems to me around digital equipment the more shielding the better.

Everyone who says that cords sound different with different equipment are right, but also different equipment sounds different. Chicken/Egg.

Keep your runs as short as is feasible, and enjoy the music. Really enjoy the damn music, isn't that the point?


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