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| Why Do Cables Matter? Just a wild guess, less than $2,000 a pair? If so, who in the right mind would spend $2,000 on speaker wire for speakers costing a few hundred bucks? I once had $3k cables on speakers that cost me ≈$400 forty years ago. Kimber BiFocal and bi-... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @yoyoyaya It makes me laugh as audiophiles prattle on about recording unless they were recording engineers themselves. Engineers may attempt to get what’s on the other side of the glass into the recording. And almost always certainly must fail.... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Have you ever tried it? What were there [sic] results? "Unlikely" how, share more? Tried it more times than I can count. I remember when I first tried Kimber speaker cable which sounded outstanding in the store. I don't recall my system at the... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Blame it on Noel Lee! Some of us were experimenting with cables & connectors long before 1976. Ieales needs a graphic equalizer- much easier for adjusting the tone of his system. @tonywinga Ever viewed the phase response of a graph... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? ^^^ The above is utterly pointless. Any deltas are specific to that system and room and unlikely to translate to an entirely different system. There are plenty of expensive cables that are demonstrably designed to be 'tone controls' and are by n... | |
| Subwoofer I used successfully use a single sub for about 15 years. With only one sub, it's important to remove the sub range from the mains. AND have sufficient drive from the sub. Most subs have inadequate controls to integrate properly. You must have va... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Has anybody ever heard a really bad effect from a cable or connector? Absolutely. Back in the early noughts, we tried a sampling of cables. One cable sounded like we had a whole new CD collection. Pass. The missus opined of another "That's th... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? audiophiles should know that no recording studio uses boutique expensive cable There are many studios that use other than 'standard' cables. My company, Studio City Sound Corp, wired many in Los Angeles in the 80's & 90's It could be a sig... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @jasonbourne71 Cables have electrical properties LC&R, the building blocks of filters. If one use a cable with a very high reactance such that it rolled the amplifier output beginning @ 500Hz and 2KHz, it would be audible. ALL cables modif... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Cost has ZERO to do with sonics. Pricier cables may have better mechanical longevity, but I’m still using some cables from the ’80’s | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Cables may or may not make a difference depending on what they connect. Even when they do make a difference, some cannot detect it. And far, far too many audiophools hear with their wallets! See ieLogical CableSnakeOil Ignore ALL recommendatio... | |
| Subwoofer Options With No Spare Preout Pass on the RELs as they do not have sufficient controls to integrate properly. IMO REL now markets bling as opposed to decades back when they were excellent. Required controls are continuously variable XO frequency, variable XO slopes, continuou... | |
| Level adjusting speaker drivers Minidsp seems more design for subs. And it seems pretty cheap of a product. And it's a nightmare to work with. No on all. I use a Flex 8 in a four way system. The updated control software isn't perfect but it's a whole lot better than before... | |
| Krell KSA 200s ground hum Verify that XLR pin 1 is connected to the line earth. It may have a low value resistance like 10Ω if there is a loop break. In recording studios we used twin screen, connected RCA pin to +ve, and -ve & screen to the shell at the source. At th... | |
| Best way to A/B two different streamers You should also stream the same song at least three times in succession to ensure that your connection is good. Pay particular attention to sound stage as opposed to frequency response. If it wanders with the streamer, get a better connection [NO... |