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Strange Cable Experiment

I have an inexpensive UTurn Orbit turntable (Ortofon Blue cartridge). a cheap Cambridge Audio phono preamp on purpose. My main front end is CD's, so my real money has gone there (relatively speaking). Recently, through a unexpected complicated swap out deal, I've connected my phono stuff together with cables which retail for more than the components I've just mentioned. Previously they were linked by some low price Pangea RCAs. (Maybe $50 per pair). Now the interconnect between the turntable is the Mad Scientist Ultra Black ($399)and from the Phono pre the Tellurium Q Black II. ($500) And let me tell you...the leap in quality has been nothing short of mind blowing. This cheap rig seriously competes with my CD set up. No I can't believe my ears either. A very strange experiment indeed. But how? Why? Stupid transparent and vocals are ....scary real. I never would recommend doing this on purpose but the results are bewildering! Opinions?

allears4u

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allears4u OP
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No I did not do a blind test. I really wasn't thinking about keeping the set up and put them in just for fun and on a whim. But, my goodness golly gosh jee whiz!!! One wouldn't need ears to hear this improvement!! not close. Not just different. But I went from el cheap to almost a $1000 worth of cables. Shielded maybe made a difference but BOY HOWDEE! Huge improvement...like crazy time

allears4u OP
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(To JasonBourne71) I totally respect your observation above. The mind is a funny thing. Since the blind experiment train has passed, I critically revisited more LP's and told myself it was mere placebo effect. I did discover some vinyl only sounded marginally better. Nuance. But some records, especially well recorded ones with vocals were profoundly better in many ways. Crappy recordings were still crappy, maybe even more annoying. The value of quality cables is camouflaged by the typical audiophile habit of creeping up product lines to hear only debatable improvements. Jumping from Pangea ($50) cables to $1000 cables exposes clearly  that some pricey cables do dramatically reveal more of what's in the media. Not just a different sound but more details, more musical, and engaging. As stated cables act as filters in a sense. Apparently cheap cables do more than their share of this filtering. Now I'm thinking where else I might be "strangling" my music!

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