Do Audiophile Cables Matter? Here's PROOF!

Are you still a naysayer if you've done your own tests but still don't hear a significant difference? Or are you just automatically considered deaf and tasteless?

I've tried Shunyata power cables, a $900 Shunyata power conditioner bar with the $250 Shunyata defender plug, various levels of Transparent interconnects,  various levels of Transparent speaker cables from multi-thousand dollar ones to their very basic 14ga wire ones.

I just don't get anything from all that. I'm certainly not going to claim that my various tests apply to anyone but me but I am certain that for me there is no need to drop big cash on cables.

The funny thing about cables is that even those who believe that they are critical to SQ have a threshold at which belief is suspended.

For some people, they are called naysayers apparently, the idea of $3000 speaker cables seems ridiculous.

Folks who are serious about cables will say that that's just the cost of entry into seriously tailored sound quality. 

But as often as not those same folks will balk when we start talking about $65,000 and $150,000 speaker cables. 

At what price point does it become snake oil. At what price point do the cable fans turn into naysayers?

@larry5729:

https://www.transparentcable.com/collections/analog-audio-speaker-cables/products/magnum-opus-speaker-cablehttp://

@glupson, sorry about the link. It was to Transparent's $65,000 speaker cables.

@speedbump6, so you're saying that people who are into cables believe that $65,000 cables will make a significant difference over $10,000 cables and that the _ONLY_ reason they don't own $65,000 cables is simply because they can't afford them? Where is the logic in that?


Regardless, that axiom does not apply to me anyway. I've got $2000 worth of cables sitting in a pile and my speakers on generic 12ga homemades because I can't hear a difference and the big cables are ugly and hard to deal with. And $1500 worth of power 'filtering' equipment shipping out to an eBay buyer because it made no difference whatever to the SQ of my system.


I'm 57. My hearing isn't perfect. But I'm not deaf either. And I know what I like and for the most part how to get it.


And the car analogy isn't applicable really. If I need to haul my track car around on a trailer I drive my pick-up. When I get to the track I drive my track car. When I go on a trip we take my wife's nice manual transmission GT coupe. Apples and oranges. A Camry does a lot of things a Lambo can't and will probably do them a lot longer too.


So no need to pretend that you or anyone else has cornered the market on logic just because cables are important to you or that those of us who just don't get that experience are somehow bereft of logic. Because, well, that's not logical.