How accurate are cable descriptions for your system?


Steve Huff, whose videos I typically like on YouTube is now reporting this about some cables:

SVS Ultra Cables can be found at Amazon for just about $100 for an 8 foot pair. These will bring a bit more bass to your sound but are less refined. 

Tuneful cables are light and have a nice design. They are leaner, and faster but also very good. You can find them for $79 for a 12 foot pair at Amazon HERE.

QUESTION: To what degree can his descriptions be taken as "likely true" for any given (sufficiently resolving) system?

I ask this for people who have found that cables DO make a difference (to their ears, in their system) and deniers will be ignored.

https://www.stevehuffphoto.com/my-fave-speaker-cables-under-100-hifi-quality/

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Showing 1 response by brianh61

When you hear cables described in a certain way -- but not specific to your system -- how accurately do you find those descriptions matching up to what you eventually here, if you try the cables?

 

When I bought my Odyssey Stratos+ years ago, I was a Bass Nut and Klause assured me it was on the Bassie side. I also bought a pair of Groneberg ICs also described on the bass side. They were the same cable that the Stratos was internally wired with.

Years later I put together a system that was on the Bright side and when I put the Gronebergs between CDP and Integrated the Bass did improve and the Brightness was lowered a good deal.

Keep in mind this was not a Ultra Resolving system but the JM Labs speakers have a titanium tweeter than can get fatiguing.

My takeaway is you can tune a system some with cables.