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Who says cables don't make a difference?

Funny, after all these years, people still say things like "you wasted all that money on cables". 
There are still those who believe cables don't make a difference.
I once did marketing for a cable line I consider to be about the best-Stealth Audio Cables. 
One CES, I walked the rooms with the designer/owner, Serguei Timachev. He carried a pair of his then new Indra interconnects. Going from room to room he asked the room runners to replace their source to preamp IC with the Indra. There was not one that was not completely flabbergasted and said that the Indras blew away what they were using. That was the skyrocketing of Indra and Stealth. The Indra became one of the best reviewed cables ever.
Serguei now makes the Sakra-an IC that blows away the Indra!
I don't understand why some still do not value cables as much as I.
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roberttdid
534 posts
 
Speed bump, no one care if someone spends $1k or $10k on a cable. I do care when someone tries to convince someone else to spend $2k or $5k on a cable when that is a waste given the many other larger deficiencies likely in their system. Unless you have some pretty poor cables the cables are not the system bottleneck. $100 speaker cables that have no significant deficiencies or poor amp interactions on a $25k well designed speaker is always going to sound better than a $10k cable on a similarly designed $15k speaker.

Watch some videos posted by cable vendors. It's laughable the level of equipment many of them have. Don't take my word for it.
roberttdid
534 posts
 
Boxer and Andy, did this atdavid make you guys look a bit foolish too? I will have to read his/her posts. Maybe you two are the same person. Seem to hang around the same posts....hmmm

P.s. Andy electrons always move. Maybe not far but they always move. Interconnects do not really heat up ... So not much friction. Any idea of the current densities?
speedbump6
760 posts
 
No one is trying to force anyone to do any such thing. Come on. The guy who has 6k in his whole systems isn’t going to buy one cable for 3k, much less way more. That’s like saying Mercedes is trying to forces you to buy a maybach, or a black series amg. Their meat and potatoes are the lower models, and then there’s people who need a Chevy or Toyota price also. Let people make those decisions for themselves. You’re not protecting anyone anymore than if you were trying to tell someone not to buy a S series merc. 
boxer12
8,656 posts
 
robertwhatever,
It’s a "yes" or "no" question in regard to if you’re the same person as atdavid.
BTW, Andy & I are not the same person
andy2
1,545 posts
 
P.s. Andy electrons always move. Maybe not far but they always move. Interconnects do not really heat up ... So not much friction. Any idea of the current densities?
I forgot you "copy and paste" from the best so my hats off to you.  

P.S.  Heat is measured on the Kelvin scale.  So even at room temperature, there's heat, but ... ahem ... this is just science ... 


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