Interesting video on cables
At the risk of opening up this can of worms again, my brother sent me this video. It’s incredibly interesting and goes some way to showing why cables matter and that all cables are not equal. These are USB cables but I’m sure the principle applies to speaker and IC cabling.
Great video and like it says, most people use the cable for charging. My big Black Friday buy was 5, 6’ USB C to USB C cables for $9.98 and they weren’t even on sale! Now the USB cable I have running from my streamer to the DAC is a whole kettle of fish different. It is strictly for music. It’s isolated,insolated and doesn’t have any charging wires in it. Oh and it cost a bit more than the above purchase. |
Gentlemen - cables certainly make a difference. The purpose of a cable is to transmit a signal while causing the least harm. Or, stated another way - with the highest fidelity. Technically, how do cable transfer the signals? Explaining the many parts of a well designed and constructed cable requires a good technical understanding of electricity, metallurgy, dielectrics, electro-magnetics and physics. Each cable design and construction becomes critical for premium performance. With a great system, set up in a treated room to perform optimally - it's easy to hear differences between cables. |
@jastralfu , all the trouble with cables, streamers and whatever else rabbit holes for this dinky lil speaker?? (that a guy goofed with in his garage)...Get a higher resolving/more substantial speaker with some real engineering dude. Here are some better things in a similar price bracket. Mofi Sourcepoint 10 Yamaha NS-2000A JBL HDI 3800 KEF R11Meta etc
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@deep_333 I’m not quite sure how to respond to your advice. I don’t think I can take it seriously if you think that the Fritz stand mounts (I refer to them this way cause at their size they really aren’t bookshelf speakers) are dinky lil speakers goofed with by some guy in his garage. Fritz speakers are well respected by many on this site and have been well received/reviewed. He’s not just some guy tinkering in his garage. Personally, I would put them up against many speakers at twice the price and that’s not because I own them but because they are that good. They may not be my end game speakers, but whenever I have gone to listen to something that might be a replacement (Focal, Fyne, B&W, Sonus Faber) I always leave thinking the speaker I just heard might sound different but not better and probably not worth it at twice the price. I also use stand mounts rather than floor standers due to space constraints, so, even if I agreed with you, the speakers you recommend are entirely too large for my listening space. |
