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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
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If lamp cord was working for you why did you turn around and spend hundreds on audiophile cabling?
nt.
Another believer! Welcome to the "club" LA-
Try this one and let me know how it stacks up. It costs $0.92 per foot on eBay. I've been using it since I bought my Thiel CS3.7 speakers. I terminate it with Nakamichi gold banana plugs .
I hate to tell you this but I also bought the Nakamichi Speaker banana plug made with "pure copper." As soon as I received them I gave one a heavy swipe with a file. They are pure brass. I notified the seller and told him they were so cheap that I would use them for something, but if he didn't want to receive negative feedback he would need to change the wording on his epay listing to remove the "pure copper" description. He removed the "pure copper" and I moved on. I think this is a different vendor, but definitely the same banana plugs.
Audio connectors that are labelled "Nakamichi" on eBay are fake. Nakamichi was asked about this, and they responded that Nakamichi does not make or market audio connectors. The issue of fake audio branding is ubiquitous on eBay and other online sources.
Well, I guess they are definitely frauds, then. However, they work very well and I like them.
There is nothing wrong with brass. It's the gold plating that's important for low contact resistance. These Nakamichi banana plugs work just fine in my system.
I was pointing out that the listing was FRAUDULENT.
Okay! Thanks for pointing that out.
Best regards,
John Elison
Les....wait 'till you change power cords.....
Same thing happened to me with power cords about 15 years ago. I was firmly entrenched in the "after hundreds of feet of cheap Romex, what possible difference can the last 6 feet make" camp. Then an audio bud sent me a rather expensive power cord to try, and my reaction was identical to yours: Damnit.
It's all downhill from here. Next will be interconnects, then power cords, then fuses, and then you'll be broke. :)
If you have not tried the latest generation of Clear Day cables,I think you owe it to yourself.
At $165/meter,it gives up only a little in the upper octaves and is not far off from the ultimate and other high priced heavy-hitters.
On the speaker cable front,there are two no-brainers to consider:
(1) Clear Day shotgun or dbl
(2) a military surplus wire used by the gov for monitoring nuclear tests
at kallenschath@gmail.com get it w/o all the extra jacketing and connectors (bare wire).
Hope you enjoy the adventure.
Tom:cat
Yes, I too have shelled out hundreds of dollars on cable and ICs over the course of several years.
I found that it helped, and it was quite do-able in terms of expense.
One change at a time, and then listen. It is little more onerous than that, unless one loses perspective over his money without having a view toward what he is trying to achieve.
Yet, I wax philosophical.
axolotl
Hee, hee.
Enjoy the journey!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Yep! Precisely my finding as noted in the link below (see my review). So cables work in some systems and others there is no difference or more problems.
It's all about system matching.
Remember usedcable.com is your friend.
Happy Listening!
DeeCee
Thanks for the recc on usedcable.com!
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