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Why Do Cables Matter?

To me, all you need is low L, C, and R. I run Mogami W3104 bi-wire from my McIntosh MAC7200 to my Martin Logan Theos. We all know that a chain is only as strong as its' weakest link - so I am honestly confused by all this cable discussion. 

What kind of wiring goes from the transistor or tube to the amplifier speaker binding post inside the amplifier? It is usually plain old 16 ga or 14 ga copper. Then we are supposed to install 5 - 10' or so of wallet-emptying, pipe-sized pure CU or AG with "special configurations" to the speaker terminals?

What kind of wiring is inside the speaker from the terminals to the crossover, and from the crossover to the drivers? Usually plain old 16 ga or 14 ga copper.

So you have "weak links" inside the amplifier, and inside the speaker, so why bother with mega expensive cabling between the two? It doesn't make logical sense to me. It makes more sense to match the quality of your speaker wires with the existing wires in the signal path [inside the amplifier and inside the speaker].

 

 

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calvinj
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Infigo audio offers demos. Calvin johnson with Infigo Audio. 

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cleeds
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My point about recording an actor making $20M and the amount of money a musician gets paid was not what I was talking about. If you have an actor like Tom Cruse, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson making $20M there is a boat load of pressure ...

You keep talking about the highly paid actors that you claim to work with. That’s nice, but it really doesn’t have anything at all to do with audio. There’s no correlation between an actor or musician’s salary and the difficulty in recording them.

Here’s what you have to understand, in an orchestra you set mics as you have for years ... In movies you generally have 2 or 3 actors moving around a set ...

I’ve recorded orchestras and concert bands. I’ve recorded solo voice. It’s a lot more difficult to get a good orchestral recording. Frequency range, dynamic range, there’s simply no comparison. It’s silly for you to try and debate this.

An audiophile prefers musical amplifiers over analytical ones.

Audiophiles have various preferences. You can’t lump them all together.

tjag
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@cleeds ​​​​​​

Audiophiles have various preferences. You can’t lump them all together.

True. 

Reading reviews online, the majority I found appreciate musical amps, hence the connection to tubes. 

 

It’s a lot more difficult to get a good orchestral recording. Frequency range, dynamic range

I noticed that. Could you recommend a good recording? 

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webking185
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To each is own, if you have a 100k system, you'll buy a $10k cable, if you have a 200k system, you'll buy a $50k cable.  I've aways stuck by 10awg copper cables and they have sound no different than others. Open any amp or speaker and tell me what kind of wires do they use to connect them with? Copper AWG

jl35
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yes, probably many speakers would sound better if they used better internal wire... some speaker companies like Dali does that on their higher end speakers...and offer that cable to their customers only...

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