32 pairs of speaker and RCA cables measured and listened to

Jerry:

I found a pair of spare IC's that I made years ago with cheap low metal mass Radio Shack RCA's and either Chimera Labs or Vampire magnet wire (not certain which).

They were hanging behind a painting in the hallway.

Definitely better sounding than the crusty cables from the 1980's.

FF and RW is spotty on the street find cassette deck and not wanting to get back into a good deck (my last one was a  Nakamichi 700ZXL) I may look for a refurbished Walkman or something small like that to use with the mini system @ the computer.

Most of the old music on these is new to me (currently listening to SADE - Diamond Life).

DeKay 

Correction...

My deck was a 700ZXE (not ZXL).

In the 70's/80's I had numerous Nak's (250 for the car, 550, 600  and the less expensive 700 model).

DeKay

 

tom2015

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08-15-2024 at 08:44pm 

No surprise here, cables sound different. 

The deniers either can’t hear well or have non resolving stereos.

The intellectually lazy comeback that we always get from the folks who will believe anything.

I spent my professional life measuring consumers'/users' subjective experience of products using various psychometric techniques. I always sought to obtain objective metrics from engineers and designers as well and then correlated those metrics with perceptual measures using multivariate statistics. This reveals both what differences are perceived and, also, what physical product features are correlated with those differences.  

Differences among cables, or any other audio component, can be resolved objectively in this way. I actually did research like this with automotive audio systems back in the day. When questions such as the present one come up I always wonder why this type of research isn't done more often in audio.

@dekay Your mention of Spandau Ballet’s “The Singles Collection” inspired me to pick up a (not so easy to find) mint/new LP. Can’t wait to spin it on my Rega P10 - that may even sound as good as your cassette version. 😎❤️