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In Reply to: Ok, cable differences... posted by mkuller on December 13, 2006 at 16:06:09:
...I find cable differences to be relatively small, but when I hear them on my system, they appear huge to me, although my wife can't hear them in the next room.
It takes long term listening - a few hours over a few days, switching back and forth - to identify small differences.I find cable differences to go beyond bass, treble and grain.
--- To me you get the grain out of your system, then get the lows and highs right. The rest should take care of itself: imaging, soundstage, musicians that drink your liquor stash... If it doesn't sound right at that point, will a cable, regardless of cost, really get you there? Judging by your choices of amplification and loudspeakers, deep down, I think you agree.
> I believe that after a certain point, say 100 bucks per meter, the differences between to competently made cable are miniscule...I am the believer that there is no one particular cable that can sound right on all recordings.>
Those two statements seem contradictory.
--- I have a weird spin on my rationale (sp?). I have seen people test a cable while liseneing to say a bell. They determine that one sounds right and another (or more) sound(s) flat. They then run into the fact that an upright bass sounds better on the one that didn't sound as good as the cable that sounded right with the bell. Or for that matter, the recording of that bell may have been tilted down on the top end. Could it be that the cables that made it sound less bell like really were right in the first place? It can end up like a cat chasing it's tail.
--- You've been to the cable demos where cable 1 is compared with cable 2 on music A. Then cable 2 is compared to cable 3 on music B. By the time you reach cable 10 and music I, you are led to believe that the differences are huge. When I heard a well thought out demo of some highly rated and expensive cable (literally thousands per meter), they refused to alter the order or compare to any other brands on any particular selection of music. While I don't disagree that the most expensive cables in the demo do sound better than the least, I would have to say that the money would be much better spent on a better amp, DAC or going with a fully active (amplifiers) system.
--- My Steradian box does a good job of tweaking the mid bass to compensate for recordings, whether they be deviations in the low end or high.
How do you find the right speaker for all recordings when the differences are immense in incomparison?
--- While not being k7niq, who seems to swap them out for each recording, I think I have found one that does most recordings of reasonable quality, justice. While not having the be all end all of sound at home, they do OK by me. Besides we have our live gigs 3 times a week for the extreme critical listening. Tomorrow we be Nuevo York bound.
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