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Do all good interconnects sound the same?

Before you get angry with me this is not my personal point of view. I have noticed differences in each of my interconnects. But I came across an article by highly acclaimed audio designer Rodger Sanders of Sanders Sound Systems. Formally of Innersound Speakers. His new model 10c won the Golden Ear award for 2010. I've never heard his new system but I like the Innersound stuff I heard. Here is a comment from the white papers on cables cut from his website. What do you guys think?

"There is no doubt that speaker cables can exert a small influence on the sound of your audio system. But interestingly, all well-designed interconnects sound identical". Rodger Sanders

His IC's are fairly inexpensive made from Belden Cable of some form. Has anyone tried them and what did you think?
detredwings
simply_q
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"Sound different" and there being an actual audible difference aren't one and the same. According to some, placing photographs of yourself in your freezer will result in your system "sounding" different and provides an excellent example of how are perceptions can be rather trivially influenced.

Suffice to say that to date, no one has yet demonstrated actual audible differences between cables beyond what can be easily measured and is within known thresholds.
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
the key phrase is "well designed". this term has not been described.

what are the criteria for the designation "well designed".

in a "blind" test, i will wager that i can identify which cable is "in" a stereo system, provided i select the cables and stereo system.

it would seem obvious that, depending on the stereo sytem, it would be very easy to distinguish between interconnect cables.
jlamo19
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So ics Have a sound to them? I would suspect the best a "Well designed" cable could do is let what is downstream hear exactly what upstream is playing nothing more nothing less.
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jax2
3,031 posts
 
His products may won the award, but hey , the prettiest girl almost never won Miss USA Pageant.

In defense of Sanders products, which I've heard twice, they are certainly worthy of recognition at that level IMHO.

On interconnects; compare them yourself and use what works for you at the price you are willing to spend.
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