If you put a mink coat on a pig....you still have a pig.
If you put a pig skin coat on Marilyn Monroe....you still have a beautiful woman.
If you put a pig skin coat on Marilyn Monroe....you still have a beautiful woman.
Cheap/expensive or expensive/cheap?
While I was listening to my modest little system recently, I began to ponder a question. What would sound better, an expensive system with the cheap/stock cables or a cheap system with high quality cables/power cords? For example, say you have a $3000 system (total) but have high quality cables/cords/conditioner etc. vs a $10000 system with just the stock cables and original power cords (no conditioners).
I read many topics on AG and I am always amazed how much I don't know and how much I've learned on here. I've been updating my system over the past 2 years or so and appreciate all the experience and knowledge on these forums. Thanks---I look forward to your comments.
I read many topics on AG and I am always amazed how much I don't know and how much I've learned on here. I've been updating my system over the past 2 years or so and appreciate all the experience and knowledge on these forums. Thanks---I look forward to your comments.
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I recently added Audioengine B1 Bluetooth receiver to my system. It uses the latest Bluetooth codec and by far bested the previous six buck BT dongle that it replaced. I use BT primarily for podcasts that I start listening to on my drive home and finish after arriving, and occasionally with Qobuz if I want to sample something and don’t want to go the extra steps of using my Bryston streamer. At first I tried my Nordost cables that cost more than the Audioengine , then the RCA cables that came with the Audioengine. I couldn’t hear a difference. Bluetooth is Bluetooth, even when done as well as possible on a revealing system. The source is still the thing. |
IME, cables matter, but only so much, and always relative to their system context an environment. If actual musical verisimilitude is the goal, then one needs speakers of a size capable of pressurizing the room to give bass instruments their proper weight. Cables won’t give you that. Proper placement is more important as well. But if these issues are well met, tweaking cables can be appreciated as being of some use. That said, I can remember hearing a grossly undersized pair of Totem Tabu speakers (relative to the room size) set up with fabulously expensive Dutch monoblocks and garden hose cables, and the results were nothing short of magical. So what do I know, other than I could never afford such extravagance? The source was standard CD of Bruce Cockburn performing “Kit Carson” from his great 1992 “Nothing But A Burning Light” album. |
three_easy_payments, still has the best answer to this question. Response number 1.
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