Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd.


Quick question for the Cables Don't Make a Difference Crowd. 

Why don't you all just completely eliminate cables by buying an all in one with powered speakers using Wi-Fi or BT?  

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Your cables can’t sound that great if you got bored enough to post that.

Besides, most skeptics of cables have a more nuanced view than your post implies. 

@jji666 They sound fantastic, what inspired me was all naysayers who get chirpy on all these cable threads. So with that logic your cables must sound really bad that you responded.

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/dutch-dutch-8c-powered-loudspeaker-with-dsp-and-bacch-processing/

So I will just tune you blokes out now.

 

I've been away for a while, but it's good to see that the ol' standards are still playing on the Forum. Cables -- REAL! Cables -- SNAKE OIL! 

Backyard fighting, audiophile style.

But where's the joy in any of it?

You could probably get good results by minimizing unnecessary cabling and shortening signal paths a lot.

Get a competent streamer+ddc+dac+linestage combo unit from a manufacturer who knows what he is doing. Run it to some proficiently designed powered speakers (Elac Navis, Meyer, Meridian, whatever). All you would need is a pair of interconnects and a power cable, I suppose.

A power cable only needs to have good shielding so it doesn’t turn into an antenna/let any noise leech back in after your power got conditioned by a power conditioner. A power cable does not need to cost 10k, it can be 100 bucks off aliexpress.

Excessive separates bibilly boobilly (i,e., 15 different boxes and cables strung all around to play a damn song) can/will often fail in execution.

Good luck.

Honestly, I feel quite certain that many if not all of the cables “denialists” here can easily hear the difference between divergent cable designs especially comparing high purity copper to high quality silver ( especially if from the same company) n their systems if they would honestly give the comparison a try.  Otherwise you”re just trolling!