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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.
mglik
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jmeyers
171 posts
 
Glupson,

My audio system Is in a large room, with the equipment rack ideally situated at the far end of a 22 foot wall, whereas the power amp is 8 feet in along the further perpendicular wall.  I understand that, unlike speaker cables, interconnects can easily perform without signal degradation a distance of 40 feet or even longer — particularly if they are balanced with good XLR terminations.
jderimig
28 posts
 
@speedbump6, no worries. I was not picking on your test, I was just curious.

I have resuscitated my system after a respite of raising 2 kids to college. I look forward to performing my own test now.

I design such tests for a living.  My first will be a SDE to determine if I can hear the difference between my fancy cables I got about 13 years ago and a coat hanger fitted with RCA plugs.  I will post the results.
speedbump6
760 posts
 
I remember years ago( many years ago) some magazine doing a test with cables and one being an extension cord picked up at a local hardware store. I believe in that case the extension cord did not win, but didn’t do badly either. Too long ago to remember if that was a measurement based test, or one based on listening. Probably where I first felt that cables didn’t make much difference. I owned expensive equipment years ago, thought  I had splurged when I bought a 100 dollar power cable. Didnt hear a difference and called it a day and hadn’t thought much about the subject again until recently, now that I’ve gotten back into the hobby after a decade of being out of it. 
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