I'll take a different road to Shadorne's comments. I too have chosen components with serious power supply designs: CAT JL-3 amps, Aesthetix Io and Callisto and APL Denon CDP with the NWO linear power supplies. Pop the hood on any of these components and it's ALL about the power supply. And yet these products respond significantly to interconnect and power cable changes.
The many people that repeatedly claim that cables do not make a difference or that if a component is chosen with robust power supplies, cables should not make a difference, clearly have not heard a system where such cables do make a difference. With all due respect, I can see how this would be the view for a system with $30k in speakers and $200-500 digital source components. Such priorities and philosophies are very different than mine.
I do not think it is an issue of avoiding fussy components that respond to cable changes. I think such comments are due to the fact that the current system implementation lacks the resolution to allow for refined cable designs to be heard and appreciated. Let's not confuse fussy with resolving and refined.
Cables are not simply wire. Silver, copper, gold, etc., all contribute to very different tonality. And the implementation of the cable designs very much influences the spatial characteristics of the performance. Far too many systems out there fail miserably in this latter area. For such systems, only cable tonality differences will be heard. But for other systems, the differences in other sonic areas will be dramatic.
I'm with Jmcgrogan2 on this one. It's all about balance. As each link is refined, it exposes the next link as the weakest....sometimes it is a cable, other times it is a component. But to continually update components and stay with "average-joe" cabling will result in serious sonic compromise.
John
The many people that repeatedly claim that cables do not make a difference or that if a component is chosen with robust power supplies, cables should not make a difference, clearly have not heard a system where such cables do make a difference. With all due respect, I can see how this would be the view for a system with $30k in speakers and $200-500 digital source components. Such priorities and philosophies are very different than mine.
If cables (a piece of wire) makes a large difference then I would definitely be concerned about the equipment.Interesting. At this point from my experience, if cabling does NOT make a large difference, I would be concerned about the resolving capability of the equipment. I am not talking about one budget cable from Audioquest vs. a budget cable of Monster. I am talking about the top tiered cables from Purist, Jade, Stealth, Kubala-Sosna, Dream State, etc.
I do not think it is an issue of avoiding fussy components that respond to cable changes. I think such comments are due to the fact that the current system implementation lacks the resolution to allow for refined cable designs to be heard and appreciated. Let's not confuse fussy with resolving and refined.
Cables are not simply wire. Silver, copper, gold, etc., all contribute to very different tonality. And the implementation of the cable designs very much influences the spatial characteristics of the performance. Far too many systems out there fail miserably in this latter area. For such systems, only cable tonality differences will be heard. But for other systems, the differences in other sonic areas will be dramatic.
I'm with Jmcgrogan2 on this one. It's all about balance. As each link is refined, it exposes the next link as the weakest....sometimes it is a cable, other times it is a component. But to continually update components and stay with "average-joe" cabling will result in serious sonic compromise.
John