Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry?
Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry?For me, cables really worth their high price because of their sound in my system. IMO, one's paying for someone's SKILL and KNOWLEDGE in building cables that fit's your taste and NOT from raw materials. I made some DIY cables that sound very very good and bested many expensive ones. Ultimately my recipe was no match and had to open my wallet for some expensive ones. |
The lower the signal a cable carries, the more important its SHIELDING becomes. If the geometry helps to achieve that and/or reduce stray capacitance and/or inductance, then maybe it is worth the extra cost, but NOT by much. I bought a $10 phono shielded cable from Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016QVZF06/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) and compared it to another shielded phono cable costing in excess of $400 and there was absolutely NO difference in the sound except the $390. As the amount of current the cables carry increase, the geometry matters less and less. In that situation about the only criteria that matters is to reduce the resistance of the wire by choosing it to be thicker. Other than that, the rest is snake oil. |
Investing in decent interconnects has saved me big bucks in the long run. They have enabled me to hear and enjoy almost exactly what I am buying upstream, not some filtered, dynamically compressed facsimile thereof. Had I not, I could have made some choices I would have regretted later down the track. |
