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A New Believer

I have listened to many systems over the years, and have never appreciated the difference speaker cables can make to a sound. In fact, I was so skeptical of the sound changes they can make that I have always not bothered with any special type of cables, generally going for generic (and dare I say it) roughly made ANY copper wire plugged in to amp and speaker. Well, imagine my surprise when I decided to do a blind test and listen to what difference cabling can make. Wow, my Vand 3A Sig's had been getting strangled! (some of you guys may want to strangle me if I told you what connects I had been using). So I am now a firm believer, cables DO make a difference.
joshc
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rok2id
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ahendler:
does difference = 'better' or improved??
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rja
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I'm not touching this one with a 10ft pole (or cable)!
chicagojtw
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Would you agree that "immeasurably small" is the same as "not noticed at all"? Therefore something "very noticeable" ought to be measurable, correct? If so, please advise where in the literature of cables one can find a side-by-side comparison of phase shift or frequency response pitting one cable against another under identical conditions.

I would also contend there is no way a reasonably short cable (<4 feet) could possibly contain enough capacitance to affect the loading of the input, though there may be some poorly made beast out there that does. Shielding is a different issue, which can affect sound, particularly in low-current turntable connections. But added RFI is not the issue; sound quality is. I still don't know what independent variable can be assigned to a cable for this.
ahendler
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Whether the difference is better or worse is a subjective judgement made by the listener
ahendler
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Here are a few
Happy reading

http://forums.audioreview.com/showthread.php?t=2526

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/cables/speaker-cable-face-off-1/speaker-cable-face-off-1-page-2

http://www.cardas.com/content.php?area=insights&content_id=10&pagestring=Measuring+Cable+Resonance
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