DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

Look I think the more resolving your speakers and components are the bigger the difference the cabling makes. The people at Gato Audio in Denmark have a lot of technology in developing their speakers.  KR Audio and Resonessence Labs also spend a lot developing the products. When you start getting up there and your system is able to reproduce closer to real musical experiences the the cables make more of a difference. Spending a resonable amount on cables in a High end system makes sense  

@rodman99999

@prof- You seem to believe that studios don’t believe cables matter.

No I never said that. It wasn’t my point at all.


I’m aware that the occasional (and often catering to audiophiles) studio use some boutique cabling. But that’s not the norm and it doesn’t necessarily demonstrate anything about the cables they’ve chosen.

I’ve also known people in music and movie sound post production (e.g. sound mixers) who are audiophiles, and who buy audiophile cables for their home systems (though rarely the super expensive stuff), along with many who do not.

The fact that any engineer, or studio, chooses to buy more expensive audiophile cables doesn’t establish that the cables are any "better."It’s not like placebo and various bias effects just stop if you are in the sound business. That would be like saying "because I’m a scientist, my hypothesis is true." But of course scientists are wrong all the time about their hypotheses. That’s why it’s the method that counts, not the person.

For an engineer who claims some set of cables are better than another, it would come down to what method he used to judge that. Usually good engineers would have a technical hypothesis that can be measured.If we are talking about sound engineers (not EEs or whatever) simply selecting new cables because "they sounded better to us" then that’s just the same anecdotal evidence that any other audiophile uses to select cables. And anyone is susceptible to bias effects.


Am I saying the cables selected by the studios you named are in fact no better than other industry standard cables? No. I wouldn’t know that.(Although I’m skeptical). All I’m saying is that piling on more of the very anecdotal-style evidence that I find questionable doesn't really help.

And as I’ve said: the point I’ve been making about standard studio cabling (which is all over the map, insofar as I’m referencing variety of sources that audiophiles listen to, spanning decades and decades of recording), is that boutique-style audiophile cables are not required for extremely high fidelity signal transmission. Is it possible that *some* audiophile cables are even better quality than most ever used for recordings? I suppose it’s possible. But, even if true, it does not seem *necessary* to spend that extra money in order to have your cables transmit extremely high fidelity signals, given "standard" cable is used to do this all the time.

OMG, Prof..we get it!...you’re the epitome of unbiased-ness-ess. You are a wise and unsullied prophet...here to save us from ourselves... educate us!

The only suggestion I have is that your posts should be less brief and concise.

You are a wise and unsullied prophet...here to save us from ourselves...

Nope.

The only suggestion I have is that your posts should be less brief and concise.

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My system has its power amps upstairs in a ventilated cupboard, they are the matching amps for ATC active 300scm, necessary due to noisy cooling fans. They are connected to my preamp with approx 15m  of studio balanced interconnects, then the amps are connected back to the speakers through another 15m of studio speaker cables which ATC supplied for the instal. The irony is, that all this studio quality cabling can clearly show the differences between a short 1m length of balanced studio cable between my dac and preamp and a high quality 3k  Dynamique Audio Zenith2 interconnect. The studio cabling doesn’t seem to be acting as a ‘sound quality’ filter, it’s still passing everything through. However when replacing the Zenith2 with a 1m length of the studio cable between dac and preamp, the sound takes a serious knock downwards. Is this magic at play. Maybe if I replaced all 30m of cables, which would necessitate pulling my house apart again and require a remortgage, I might gain further improvements, but that just ain’t gonna happen!!!