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In Reply to: RE: Levels of knowledge about cables posted by kerr on June 26, 2009 at 06:21:25
>>The only glitch was that I somewhat stupidly forgot to listen sighted (in a critical fashion) to either cable ahead of time!<<
>Then I'm not sure what your point was in testing. You just assumed you'd hear a difference blind even though you didn't try them sighted?<
I did try them sighted, but not critically. In other words, I had the Cardas cable hooked up at one point, and at one point I had tried the Radio Shack. I was hardly even paying attention. For some reason, this made me sure they were different. They were very different, actually, but the Cardas cable was terrible. I suspect it's counterfeit. I got it from Audiogon.
> They were very different, actually, but the Cardas cable was terrible. I suspect it's counterfeit. I got it from Audiogon. <
I think you said the Cardas rolled off the treble. Some of them are designed to do that very thing but I can't recall which model(s). Seems to me one of them was a fairly low cost model (for Cardas) but there may be others. At any rate, it may be the real deal.
This cable is the Cardas Neutral Reference. I borrowed a Neutral Reference from the local dealer---same make model and length---and they sound nothing alike. The dealer's sounds gorgeous and high-resolution; the one I bought from Audiogon is extremely rolled-off, vague, fuzzy.
Ok, you're right, then. I used to own Neutral Ref and it was a killer cable - not rolled off at all.
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