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In Reply to: RE: If you can really really hear a difference between cable/wire posted by Frank Sol on April 14, 2009 at 22:04:14
Going from 14-2 solid copper household wire to old Monster Powerline 2 wires on a 15-foot speaker run gave a slightly reduced sense of grunge. Nothing dramatic, but most everyone heard it, or thought they did.
I have not heard anything dramatic on 1 meter IC runs, except for the real cheapie (mass market) stuff, and suspect the connectors are the big difference there. Would be interesting to put decent connectors on those cheapie wires and see...
I've also heard dramatic improvements from cleaning RCA and speaker connectors - **really** dramatic. A system I put together for a friend gradually got dull and lifeless, and cleaning the connectors brought it all back in a BIG way.
I have a 9-foot set of ICs from my preamp to monoblocks, and found the Venhaus DIY silver ICs blew away Cardas quadlink - that *was* dramatic, and everyone hears it.
So it depends. Connectors, I think, are always important, and there is a big improvement to be had by every physical connector you can get rid of by hard-wiring. Wire itself *can* be important, particularly on long runs, and particularly if you watch capacitance and shielding, each of which can be important in certain installations and environments.
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