DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

I was having an issue with brightness in my system, and was attempting to address it through interconnects. It turned out that an isolation transformer was needed, but it took a lot to convince me to try it. After all, with conventional power supplies you are already using a transformer, a step down transformer in your power supply. Obviously they must be designed differently. Anyway, that left me with a lot of what I considered to be expensive cables, so obviously I had to make a determination as to which sounded best. Years back I had made ICs using LAT International's hookup wire, but as they are now defunct, I was unable to compare their products, which I believe would have at least been in the finals. Anyway, after spending several thousand dollars, I found that in my system, and there were a hand full of cables that were really tight contenders, Signal Audio's silver coated copper wire edged out the rest. I have always preferred a silver/copper mix it seems, but after hearing about the "diode" effect of silver clad copper wire, I was a little bit surprised that Signal Audio, the LEAST expensive IC's that I tried, beat cables costing many times as much. Mind you, impedance between devices, and a host of other issues come into play, so it's even possible that Signal Audio's cables may be the worst sounding cable in other systems, but when I buy cables in the future, Signal Audio's cables will be on my list of cables to try. Of course as I already have them in my system, I can just move them in order to test them with a particular device.

shadornem

Mountain of BS with absolutely no evidence, just anecodotal stuff. I have never seen an AES paper proving sound differences of various cables and won’t ever see one because it is all equipment and component performance related

Perhaps you've never seen such as AES paper because you are not a member of AES. Would that be correct?

Are you familiar with Richard Black's "Audio Cable Distortion is Not a Myth" treatise? It's from 2006. You might want to review it before you repeat your claim. If you're an AES member you can read it for free.

When choosing cables.
 Where would one go and how would you compare one to another?
 How big of a difference in sound is there from Hundred dollar cables to ten Grand in cables?
Is there that huge of a difference?

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shadorne
Mountain of BS with absolutely no evidence, just anecodotal stuff. I have never seen an AES paper proving sound differences of various cables and won’t ever see one because it is all equipment and component performance related.

>>>>Thanks for bringing up AES. They’re filled to the brim with old fogeys just like Dunlavey. They are vehemently anti-audiophile.

The ad hominem attacks in this thread are sad. Someone is too old, another has crap for brains, and yet another has cheap components....