Question. @tvrgeek what is in your audio chain, equipment wise? DAC, Streamer, Amplification, Speakers or are you using Headphone. Just curious.
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@tvrgeek Said "Between good cables, no I heard no difference. I am not positive I heard a difference with the bad cables." Thanks for answering the question. I have heard big differences and no differences between cables in different applications. I noted above in this thread that my favorite USB cable is currently made by DH Labs, but I have also done sound testing with cheap cables (all under $12) connecting a hard drive to a server, and I had a very specific favorite (my favorite was actually a "Belkin" not a "Belden"). That is when I first realized digital cables matter. I assemble a lot of my own power cables, and completed cables I thought would sound killer based on design, materials and measurements just sound weird, and some cheap power cables from China sound fantastic to me. Go figure. On other digital cables - specifically coax cables - a vendor handed me some cables from brands I had no experience with to try, and then I went out and borrowed a bunch more from another vendor and I did a set of subjective sound tests. Turns out I had particular dislikes, likes and likes more. I had my son who has good ears for recorded music come sit down and listen to different cables and take notes as I swapped them out calling them 1, 2, 3 etc. He could not see what I was doing. A blind test. No particular order by price. His notes generally echoed my non-blind impressions. He hands down liked the two most expensive cables the best without knowing what they were. He also really liked a cable that was the 2nd cheapest cable tested. He did not like the cable I had been using and I thought previously was all that. Turns out after going through the testing period, I didn't care for that much either when compared to other wires in the test. Maybe he was tired, or confused, or the result was a fluke, or maybe he just has really good ears and could detect differences in sound attributable to nothing more than some wires and shielding and connectors running between a server and a DAC. I bought an expensive cable as a result of this experience. Maybe my gear sucks and needs that extra help. Dunno. But it makes me happy when I listen. YMMV. kn
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@antigrunge2 I’m completely in the dark about what I don’t know, but I think maybe it’s a lot. kn |
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