Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire?
If someone only tries low-grade low-cost cables and never compares them hands on to really good cables (in a high end system with great upstream components) you likely will never know what you are missing. Kinda like buying a really nice sports touring car and only driving it in your local neighborhood. What’s the saying..."if i have to explain it you wouldn’t understand". |
i agree with @decooney but really good cables do not have to be extremely expensive cables let’s not conflate the two expensive cables also aren’t always really good cables, in an absolute sense, or applied to your system the only thing you do know about really expensive cables is that they are really expensive |
If I had just 1/100 of a penny for every word ever written about the sound (or not) of a speaker cable or an interconnect cable I would now be the planet’s wealthiest human! 🤑🤑🤑 IMHO, I believe the differences we hear can be explained by the inductance, capacitance, and resistance of a cable. An experiment I’d love to see someone conduct is to measure the inductance, capacitance, and resistance of a highly regarded “good sounding” speaker cable/interconnect cable. Next, I’d construct a speaker cable/interconnect cable using different materials with identical measures of inductance, capacitance, and resistance. There are no other known electrical properties that exist, period! 🤭 Then I’d turn these samples over to the audiophile press to compare against each other. I posit there would be no discernible difference in sound quality between the two cables. I personally believe that there can be audible differences, but I believe this is because an important application of inductors in active circuits is that they tend to block high-frequency signals while letting lower-frequency oscillations pass. Note that this is the opposite function of capacitors. Combining the two components in a cable can selectively filter or generate oscillations of almost any desired frequency. And this effect is what I believe people “hear” when comparing cables. Ergo, I posit I could measure and duplicate the sound of any speaker cable or interconnect currently being marketed as a good sounding wire. I do wonder why no one has done this? 😳😳😳 |
vinyl_rules
Perhaps others have tried and found it is not as easy as you suggest. What is stopping you from undertaking such a simple task? |
And we should believe all you audiophiles who tell us there is a difference? Until there is a reputable ABX test done between some cables, I think you are all blowing smoke. 3:07 - 5:20 https://youtu.be/BYTlN6wjcvQ?t=185 |
