I hear your complaint. The reason responses are all over the place is because a given cable will sound different with any input or output circuit. I am sure your question arose from experience of that happening.
How accurate are cable descriptions for your system?
Steve Huff, whose videos I typically like on YouTube is now reporting this about some cables:
SVS Ultra Cables can be found at Amazon for just about $100 for an 8 foot pair. These will bring a bit more bass to your sound but are less refined.
Tuneful cables are light and have a nice design. They are leaner, and faster but also very good. You can find them for $79 for a 12 foot pair at Amazon HERE.
QUESTION: To what degree can his descriptions be taken as "likely true" for any given (sufficiently resolving) system?
I ask this for people who have found that cables DO make a difference (to their ears, in their system) and deniers will be ignored.
https://www.stevehuffphoto.com/my-fave-speaker-cables-under-100-hifi-quality/
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@stevewharton @kellyp ) I like the wine metaphor. I think we all struggle. Not only because these terms are very very vague (in terms of designating a precise sensory correlate event in our own situated experiences) but there are many acoustical factors which make the comparison laughable if it's meant to be serious or scientific. (That pretense to scientific accuracy is probably what gets under most people's skins.) We might consider the wide range of factors that comprise a certain sonic event: recording So, when someone says "this cable sounds like X" then I need to know something reasonably precise about the other factors involved -- and how they compare to my own space and taste. Otherwise, what they say about the cable is fairly opaque. A.K.A. nearly "useless." Unless one is just looking for something to try. And I have no beef with that. We all need to get our hints from somewhere. Silversmith Fideliums -- thanks for mentioning. |
Headphones can be useful when you need to be silent for the sake of someone else... None of my 8 headphones compared to me acousticallt controlled room... I will never go back to headphones... Most people anyway listen their speakers in a living room or in a room not acoustically controlled... Headphones sound is artificial.... But room acoustic is so complex to experiment with, i advise headphones over living room speakers...
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