As you say, there are indeed 2 schools of thought of this.
I'm 61 years old and have lost a substantial measurable amount of my hearing. I've called myself more of a tin-eared audiofool than a golden-eared audiofile. But allow me to digress...
In one long listening session last fall, my friend and I auditioned interconnect. Based on our testing methodology (single-blind, BTW), if I could hear that a cable had been inserted into the system, I rejected it as 'audible'. I ended up rejecting one current and several old AudioQuest cables plus Monster's expensive M1000i. I then could not distinguish among Audioquest's Diamondback x 2 (this is one generation old, as the current D-back is x 3), Jaguar (a DBS cable), and old Topaz ( w/PSC conductors and a dark-green jacket). This was a good thing for me and my bank balance, as I had a bunch of this Topaz, and I made about a dozen cables by adding Cardas silver connectors. (My friend could reliably distinguish among EACH of these cables and bought a bunch of Jaguar.)
I share this with you because I subsequently could indeed hear the differences among some 20-year-old AQ 1-1/4"-diameter blue stuff, a one-generation-old AQ cable that is a hybrid of silver and copper, current CV-6 (the DBS type), and a double-biwire of KE-4 and KE-6. I REALLY didn't WANT to hear how good the KE- cable was, because it retails for $285 per foot. However, I did, and I bought it. (I used the 2-pairs-of-conductors KE-4 on the treble and the 4-pairs KE-6 on the bass/MR of my 2-way Kindel PLS-As.) In my case, high-purity silver conductors do indeed make an audible improvement in the sound I hear.
Based on AQ's 2004 prices, MontBlanc retails for $75 per individual foot, Volcano for $125/i.f., and KE-6, $185/i.f. Both the first two cables use the same Perfect-Surface Copper as CV-6.
Are your speakers biwirable? Powerhungry? or more sensitive than average? (Help us help you.)
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I'm 61 years old and have lost a substantial measurable amount of my hearing. I've called myself more of a tin-eared audiofool than a golden-eared audiofile. But allow me to digress...
In one long listening session last fall, my friend and I auditioned interconnect. Based on our testing methodology (single-blind, BTW), if I could hear that a cable had been inserted into the system, I rejected it as 'audible'. I ended up rejecting one current and several old AudioQuest cables plus Monster's expensive M1000i. I then could not distinguish among Audioquest's Diamondback x 2 (this is one generation old, as the current D-back is x 3), Jaguar (a DBS cable), and old Topaz ( w/PSC conductors and a dark-green jacket). This was a good thing for me and my bank balance, as I had a bunch of this Topaz, and I made about a dozen cables by adding Cardas silver connectors. (My friend could reliably distinguish among EACH of these cables and bought a bunch of Jaguar.)
I share this with you because I subsequently could indeed hear the differences among some 20-year-old AQ 1-1/4"-diameter blue stuff, a one-generation-old AQ cable that is a hybrid of silver and copper, current CV-6 (the DBS type), and a double-biwire of KE-4 and KE-6. I REALLY didn't WANT to hear how good the KE- cable was, because it retails for $285 per foot. However, I did, and I bought it. (I used the 2-pairs-of-conductors KE-4 on the treble and the 4-pairs KE-6 on the bass/MR of my 2-way Kindel PLS-As.) In my case, high-purity silver conductors do indeed make an audible improvement in the sound I hear.
Based on AQ's 2004 prices, MontBlanc retails for $75 per individual foot, Volcano for $125/i.f., and KE-6, $185/i.f. Both the first two cables use the same Perfect-Surface Copper as CV-6.
Are your speakers biwirable? Powerhungry? or more sensitive than average? (Help us help you.)
.