DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

calvinj
@geoffkait I’m not showing off by telling you what my gear is and how much I paid for it. No disrespect but not knowing what gear you running I’m a lot less inclined to value what you say. That’s just my opinion. I don’t know what basevlevel you are at. I was able to have Allnic, veloce, classe, high fidelity, Kubala sosna, Audio research, revel, Sonus faber, Vienna acoustics , clarity Cable, Clarus cables, atlas mavros, audioquest in my system at different times through the last 12 years so my context for what great sound is maybe different based on my ability to have long demos to well respected gear. Any way without knowing your gear I’m less inclined to pay attention. When I hadn’t heard better I did not know better.

>>>>Whatever.

I’m not ONE OF THOSE GUYS! I said what I said because vintage gear sounds different. Cables make less of a difference in vintage gear. Vintage gear has a nice full sound.  Vintage and newer age stuff both have THIER plus and minus. Gear doesn’t have to be expensive to sound good. I only mentioned what I have and have demoed to give folks an idea of how many diffferent Cable brands and equipment brands I have experience with. Also if you are a vintage gear guy I don’t have much experience with that stuff so for me I Don’t have much in common Audio wise to share with you. I have been blessed to have expensive gear but that doesn’t mean I look down on cheaper stuff. Anyway, on some of these forums you have guys that attack the other guys who own expensive cables and equipment. I’m not saying cheap gear is bad I started with the cheap stuff but the more expensive stuff bettered the cheap stuff. I don’t have time for The Audio envy crowd so feel how you feel.  Anyway you took what I said and ASSumed a whole lot. Whatever. Enjoy your vintage gear and I will enjoy my gear. Best wishes. 

@prof. I been in a position to,demo a lot of stuff without having to buy it. Lol so I got to start at the bottom and hear a wide range of stuff. I think I have a pretty good ear. I do believe the gear is way more important than cabling. 

It's pretty funny reading some comments on here. My really good friend has MBL speakers upstairs and Raidho downstairs. We've changed cables, including power cords and it's easy to hear the changes on both systems. 

Ricred1 These threads can go crazy. For one there is quite a bit of money spent on cabling by some of us. The non believers think we are nutty. In addition to that some of us have higher end systems. People will get Audio envy and they wil say that it’s a waste to spend 8k 12k 20k 30k 50k and up on a speaker. They will call you crazy or snobbish. The truth is that there are some really great speakers out here and 8 times out of 10 the cost more. They have more r&d and build quality most of the time so you get better sound. I never diss the the sub 3k speakers some of them do a great job but these folks think we are bragging because of the gear. I’m not I’m just telling you for the most part there are some great speakers at the higher price points. A lot but not all but the better budget you. have if you know what you are doing you can put together a killer system. Also the more your system is worth it allows you to put in and justify better cabl8ng and power cords. For some it’s nutty but our systems allow us to hear the difference. That’s all.  It putting people down but if you can’t tell me what kit you are running your opinions are useless to me.