wesheadley
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| Power cable dilemma You won’t find any empirical evidence or studies that show any correlation between the price of a power cord and any improvements made in the sound quality of a component like an amp. Do you really think that the engineers and designers that produ... | |
| The Future of Hifi is just being Discovered J-Wall: @thecarpathian I don’t think you’ve managed to convince anyone here you know what you’re talking about What are you talking about? Speaking for everyone? Dude, honestly, you’re analysis and your retorts are the very definition of cluele... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance I have some Musicable for speakers, from Germany-- claimed (I say claimed because I have never even tried to verify it) to be made of pure silver. It sounds good. In my system, perhaps a tad bright, but definitely good. The main thing for speaker ... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance Nice rant. Have you heard a $30K turntable Why thank you. Yes, a couple in that range. VPI and an SME in that range. Both sounded great, but I’ll tell you the same thing as I did regarding cables-- the differences are subtle-- and NOT "better t... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance Silver cable does not sound better than copper cable. All quality cables have subtle differences and much of that is system, power, or even room dependent. It's like getting into an argument about which bottle of a high-end wine tastes better. The... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance Well you’re kind of putting words in my mouth so I’ll clarify; Regarding cables-- beyond a certain level of build and materials quality, you, nor anyone else, would be able to rank a series of cables -- all of good build and quality materials-- f... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance Yup. In this particular case, it’s absolutely true. The specs are ever better. Also, I have proof. The $1000 cable was unable to reproduce a specific note that this cable is capable of doing. So you have proof? Evidence please. A defective $100... | |
| Price Isn't Always Indicitive of Quality or Performance "You get what you pay for" in high-end audio is more of a joke than a truism. Do you really, honestly think that a $300,000 amplifier blows away a similarly specced’ $20,000 amplifier? Wrong. Does a $5,000 cable sound better than a $500 cable? N... | |
| Why do hipsters prefer analog? Because is sounds better. Distortions and all. It just does. | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? There is NO BEST CABLE. It is FALSE that the more you spend on a cable the better is gets. That said, there are many excellent cable makers out there. You could try Morrow Audio, they have a number of lines at different price points. They are well... | |
| Why Is Hi Fi Gear So Darn Expensive? A lot of high-end audio products might have more to do with art than with commerce. There are plenty of high-value products out there that deliver superb audio quality and are not at all frighteningly expensive. But was it like this decades ago--... | |
| Cable curmudgeon tunefuldude Thank you for your very thoughtful response to my comments regarding cables. I have not tried Nordost yet-- but I will go over to their site and start doing some reading. I don’t trust my first reactions to an equipment change unl... | |
| Cable curmudgeon So $200 is the absolute upper limit on price we should pay on cables? No, not for me. I'm more in the $300-$500 per cable, but I've bought pure sterling silver Musicable for stupid money, tried some higher-end Wire-World and Audioquest stuff, a... | |
| Cable curmudgeon I really didn’t mean to rile up the MAGA loving or the placebo-denying crowd by pointing out that no one can rank cable audio quality by price (or to promote communism). I’m just pointing out the obvious-- very expensive cables include obscene pro... | |
| Cable curmudgeon Everyone is free to be ripped off. It's a free country. That's not my issue. Like I said, my issue is with bogus claims justifying stupid pricing. By all means, spend $10k on an interconnect and tell us all about the blacker backgrounds, better fo... |