Cable Asylum: Re: 23 ICs Comparative Evaluations including DIY Belden 89259 by Thorsten Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys.

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Posted by Thorsten on June 27, 2001 at 06:24:09

In Reply to: 23 ICs Comparative Evaluations including DIY Belden 89259 posted by Kim on June 26, 2001 at 16:28:37:

Hi there,

I don't normally comment much here, but in my personal Evaluation I found Belden 89259 barely better than the cheap "goldpatch" cable from Radioshack. I found 89259 to be much closer in general sound and behaviour to that kind of cable then to the other DIY and Commercial Cables with true High End performance I tested.

I put this down squarely at the stranded construction, virtually all other cables in my test where of various "solid core" constructions, true litz or foil. I personally found RG214/Mil (stranded construction, but siverplated, Polyethylen Dielectric) to sound substantially better than Belden 89259, finding it to lack the ragged and distorted sound of stranded copper.

So the result in this test do not surprise me at all.

This is not meant as critism of Jon Risch's work, but rather as an illustration of just how different cables react to both system context and the listeners themselves. The "stranded copper" distotion I'm going on about for examples disappears beneath that caused by CD's oversampling Filters and typhical "Lin" Topology Solid State Amplifers (regarless of Calss A operation or not). If Jon Rischs evaluation used conventional CD Sources and conventional Solid State Amplifiers then I'm not surprised at his findings either.

Later T

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