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15 ft XLR thoughts (BJC/Mogami etc)

I need a pair of 15 ft XLR cables to go between my PS Audio preamp and Mark Levinson amp.

I am looking at around $100/pair cables from BJC. BJC uses either Belden 1800F or Canare L-4E6S. Others recommend Mogami cables in a similar price range. BJC is a local company for me, so I like to buy theirs unless there is a compelling reason to go elsewhere. At 15 ft, is either the BJC Belden or Canare going to make any real difference? I live in a smallish town, most RF interference would likely be from a cell tower. Don’t know of any within 1/2 mile. Also, is 15 ft considered a "short run"?

Thanks
brad1138
tweak1
3,685 posts
 
You state you own very high quality (and expensive) amp and pre and somehow expect that a cheap ass XLR cable will allow you to hear what they are musically capable of?


Mind Blown
tweak1
3,685 posts
 
Brad, don’t let Mike’s OPINION sway you. Clearly, it is NOT based on experience
However, a quality 15ft pair of XLRs can easily top $1000, and likely $2000. Best move is to bring them within 1 meter of each other
mike_in_nc
1,166 posts
 
Hey, my OPINION is as good as yours.

I tried a pair of $2200 interconnects, and (based on a blind listening panel, many of whom are audio or music professionals) concluded that they did something funny in the treble, and that the $100 Mogami cables were notably less colored.

With cables, it’s ALL opinion. The only FACTS are that the R,L,C of the cables varies only slightly. The other fact is that many in the recording industry use Mogami cable extensively. It’s something of a standard. Not too many use the boutique stuff, though some do.
tweak1
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Using your example: " many in the recording industry use Mogami cable extensively" is laughable for so many reasons


The fact that millions of people eat McDonalds every day, does that mean I should too?

AND, when you tried the $2200 pair (price isn’t necessarily an indication of high sound quality) were the 2 components BOTH Differentially Balanced? And was the rest of the system capable of revealing the differences?


From personal experience over decades of reading various hi-end magazine reviews of Dif Balanced (DB) components, all too often the Editor sends a DB component to be reviewed by one of their writers whose system is NOT DB! They had to use XLR/RCA jumpers. And to a fault the typical report included I really couldn’t hear a difference. Well DUH!

I would write or email the Editors, but it fell on their deaf ears

hth

jetter
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Correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe that Ralph (Atma-Sphere) has stated that the quality of cable is not as important when using xlr balanced cables.

I have used Canare RCA’s and find them to work just fine. I also have Canare and Belden speaker cables and in my system, the Canare sound better, the Beldens having a somewhat darker veiled character.

If someone has compared Canare and Mogami interconnects please provide your evaluation results.

@tweak1
Using your example: " many in the recording industry use Mogami cable extensively" is laughable for so many reasons
I find it rather a telling fact, they are the professionals in my eyes.


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