Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics
@cleeds +1 I too believe cables make a difference - and you need to be a "non-idiot" to produce a good one. I just don't think they are contributing to more than 5-10% of my system's overall performance - and appreciate other's thoughts on the relative impact that cables and other items make on their rigs. |
mike_in_nc4:58pmFinally, it’s easier to sneak a new pair of wires or set of fuses into the house than a new pair of speakers. That can be important to those who hope to be spared questions -- of cost and sanity -- from life partners.Mike. NOW you tell me? The trucking company tells me my speakers are on the way for delivery today. Dead man walking... |
Three_easy_payments: I started out in this hobby when I bought Dyna70 and DynaPAS kits and built the stuff myself at the age of 14, back in the 1960s. David Halfer’s Dynaco was built on the premise of simple (simple!) high quality design that was affordable. That ethos had largely vanished in the audio world of today. The system that I have today is built on the foundation that I started out with 53 years ago. The premise is the same: don’t spend much, carefully shop to get the most for the dollar out of each compatible component. The biggest recent improvement was a consequence of moving into a new home that needed a gut restoration. I have a room that is semi-anechoic, and the sound quality went up by a whopping 25% to 30%. All for the amount of money I was to spend anyway for thermal performance, about $2000. Which would you choose? $2000 on a room treatment for 25% improvement $2000 on cables for at best 5% improvement see https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com I have tried expensive cable in the past. You will see that I found cable performance to be so negligible that I don’t bother to include them in my system component listing. I thought until a few days ago that all of my cables were generic, except for some bottom of the barrel Monster. It turns out I still have Analysis Plus in there, connecting the table/SUT/preamp/amps from the last time I tried experimenting with cables, about 10 years ago, and completely forgot about them. cheers - unreceivedogma apologies to those who by now have heard my mantra over and over, beaten into them with a baseball bat. |
