Cable septic

Anticables Level 1 ICs on sale for $50/pr (list $100). Listed here on Audiogon. This is a good company with affordable products! Check out their speaker cables! I have no affiliation with them.

Here's what I have presently in use: 5 pairs of Audioquest Silver Extreme ICs @ $100/pr (list price $500/pr). Bought from HCM Audio. Speaker cable: Q Audio Time Stream. Bought a used 50ft piece for $50. Cut it in quarters (four 12.5ft pieces) and added banana plugs. I chose all this on the basis of price. Sounds fine in my system!

Wire, as well as all audio conduits, "never stop" burning in, none that I have ever used. That said, expensive cable is a bit of a sales scam along with all over built HEA products.

Skeptic not septic, Dam autocorrect

At least you were not in bed with a nasty clown

All that being said, skeptic does indeed flow and rhyme with septic.

Can’t say the two drift far apart on this subject...

like armchair footballers trying to tell rocket scientists how to do their job.

It’s a serious disconnect. After over 26 years of the same endless threads (I was dealing with similar ’threads’ by 1993, in the origins of the web), it can be seen that is is a gulf that cannot be covered except in a powerful effort in individual cases, in person.

So no solution of this will ever be found on a forum.

You can see the one given gang gathering in this thread already.

the final end point of this sort of thing is that some forums are making it 100% unacceptable to negatively engage about cable sound or cable sonic difference or the reasoning behind them, in ANY, thread, I repeat ANY thread of the given forum that is about perceived audio quality itself being in question.

If people want to talk about cable sound and cable differences on those forums, you leave them alone... or you are banned. Simple. Anyone trying to fake out the rules and attack others via skirting near the letter of the law and not abiding by the spirit of the law, is also banned.

Might be a good idea for this forum to head in that direction.

"Septic"?     A very apposite descriptive, of so many claims, made on this site.     You’ll never know if a good set of cables will make a difference TO YOU, until you try them, for yourself.     The Cable Company charges 5%, of their going price, for whatever cabling piques your interest.     If you’re truly concerned, that shouldn’t deter.     If you like them, they’ll apply the rental to your purchase price.   Personally, I’d try a better interconnect pair first, between your DAC and integrated.     In my estimation; that would be most noticeable, aurally.     Try something older, from either Synergistic Research or Kimber, but- still close to their upper end.     Less expensive/still better than most.        ie: https://www.usedcable.com/interconnect-cables/synergistic-research-element-copper-xlr-with-mpc-and-tuning-modules-3ft-1m-pair-interconnect-cables.html    OR: https://www.usedcable.com/interconnect-cables/kimber-kable-select-ks-1011-rca-3ft-1m-pair-interconnect-cables.html     Either of those should cost you less than $50(including shipping), to try in your system.