DO CABLES REALLY MATTER?

glupson said,

”I also googled "gobbledygook", the word I had never encountered before.”

>>>>>That in itself is cause for worry, perhaps even doubt. Could it be a cultural or language thing. No wonder glupson oft appears to be a clean slate. Maybe I’ve been unfair. Oh, yeah, I forgot, you’re Scandinavian. Factoid of the day: All Scandinavian countries are very high up the list of World’s happiest.

Must be a cultural/language thingee cause the math joke went seriously pear-shaped and may have landed in another solar system.

My point about listening remains accurate...I'm a professional listener as a live sound mixer and musician, which doesn't mean I have better hearing, it simply means that after decades of experience I know how and what to listen for. Not everybody can do this (or they haven't tried), which is good for me I suppose since I'm paid well for this stuff...a hifi geek who participates in "active" listening, meaning they spend the time to really focus their attention on music, develops a strong sense of what's right from the accumulated listening experience and simply messing around with the gear to produce personally quantifiable differences. That experience, tempered by personal taste, is what gives people expertise and separates them from the more casual listener...or another human with ears.

To quote elizabeth, back to actual cables.


Does anyone has experience with Zavfino (1877Phono?) cables? In particular, speaker cables. They are on website that erik_squires had a link to in his post last night.

Wow....I never seen the Teo guys so active on a given thread. You others must have stirred the pot sufficiently to keep them engaged for so long.

Anywho....back to cables making a difference.
I am not the greatest listener, nor do I have perfect hearing. But I do know when a particular cable makes my audio reproduction more musically lifelike to me when installed into my system in place of something else. And bringing a smile to my face in the realization of that greater sense of musical reproduction experience wrought with a different cable in system is why I would keep the cable in the system.

And I freely admit and respect another person’s opinion when listening to my system might come to a different conclusion, based upon his/her own subjective perceptions of listening and hearing.