High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ?


The last 20 years as an audiophile and now a dealer has taught me a very important lesson. Everything matters. The equipment can be great but no matter how much you spend the matching is very important. The cabling is also important. Some think cabling is all about making it sound better. I prefer my cabling to not get in the way. It’s like it can’t be a clogged faucet for your sound.  Materials and shielding are very important. In addition to that the room is very important. You may not have a perfect room but you build your system to work in the room you have. I don’t have all the answers but you can’t just spend money and have a great system. Combination of equipment, cabling and room has gotten me there. I’ve tried a lot of gear and cables and this is how I feel. What are your thoughts everyone? 

calvinj

You are totally right and i believe you without any doubt ...

But nothing i said negate the irreplaceable potential of any superior costlier design ...

As nothing replace embeddings controls ..

My only point is we can learn how to be happy with a minimal low cost system for a minimal acoustic satisfaction ... Here price dont matter , we must learn ...For maximal acoustic satisfaction just learning is not enough we must BUY the superior design... But BUYING it without learning how to embed it is a waste ... That is my point ...

 

@maghister you probably have done a great job maximizing what you have. But there is equipment that is just next level. My Infigo method 4 Dac for example uses the latest 9038 ess Sabre Dac chipset. The owner of our company worked with the chip inventor before. They have ways of limiting distortion built in to the build of the Dac while maintaining its musicality. Premium power supplies are used in the equipment. Everything has been researched to limit noise, distortion and crosstalk. We realized that the chip gives off heat and heat causes distortion. So mini heats sinks were built between the individual dac chips to limit that distortion caused in the second or third harmonics. There is a lot of technology parts and tried and proved implementation used in my Dac alone. Basic or other equipment is not going to give you that level of performance because you change your room. Is it expensive yes. But it took 2 whole years of work and a year worth research to develop it. A lot of trial and error was put into it. No matter how you set your room up. This thing with the right synergy is gonna sing regardless of what room it’s in. It’s going to wipe the floor with the entry level dacs period. It’s just built better all the way around. Sorry your room ain’t gonna beat the build quality and research that goes into a product like this. We have had dac shootouts with all of the similar cost no object products and we are held our own 100%. The Msb, lampiztor, wadax, Weiss, Nagra and the DCS. Look is it expensive yes. But the build quality of this type of gear as well as the technology and implementation is next level. Put this stuff in the perfect room with good synergy and it’s a wrap. There are just levels to everything. The Chevy ain’t gonna be a Lexus because the latter is just flat out built better with better parts, research and technology behind it. @mahgister not minimizing what you have done. You make great points and have done an exceptional job with what you have but the room fixes all is part of the equation but with exceptional equipment in the right room and right synergy is where it’s at more than most. Even great components in a sub par room can still take you to bliss. Just my opinion!

@mahgister yes implementation is key. Our owner engineer has really focused on implementation. He obsesses about it. 

@jastralfu deep 333 would have you believe all dealers are blood sucking neophytes. That’s just not true. I literally allow the client to try before they buy. That’s why you gotta be careful with some of the posters here. They just go nutty once they see a high price then they jump on their soapboxes with their bullhorns. Jeez! 

I believe you by the way ...

Happy new year ....

@mahgister yes implementation is key. Our owner engineer has really focused on implementation. He obsesses about it.