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a great take on big$ cables

i was talkin to a friend about cables & wire's & no matter how hard i try to tell him its not needed he wont budge because he has heard that big buck wires are the way to go,i even showed him this web page & after reading it his response was this "if they didnt work then why would they sell them" after talking for hours i gave up & gave him a demo,he heard no difference & neither did i but he still believe's.

there isnt alot of info published on wires except by manufacturer's so i thought i'd post this so every body could enjoy it.

this is a link to roger russell's web site where he gives his thought's on wire's & cable's & reports on blind testing that was done,if your not familuar with him he was a audio engineer for many years & from some of the gear i own that he designed i'd say a damm fine engineer too.

if you are of the belief that big buck cable's are not worth using you may get a chuckle but if your a firm believer then you might be bummed out,anyway's here's the link if you care to read about wire's.

{http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm}
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serus
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Bigjoe: I agree that it's best to correct the problem at the source, but most people just buy equipment to listen, not to fix it...
Coming from some background in power electronics (many years ago...), I appreciate these issues. Unfortunately I find that quite often audio engineers concentrate on the audio part of their gear and the power supply is sort of an afterthought. Real sad!
But it's "only" a power supply... Dah!!!
snofun3
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According to serus, "Our sound memory is pathetically short, like 5-10 seconds", while Evita says "my wife claims to hear significant differences between cables and cords".
Thanks for proving my point guys.
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boa2
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Thanks for proving my point guys.
Huh?
serus
93 posts
 
Snofun3: I tried zipcord and didn't like it, so what should I do? Listen to it anyway?! Please solve my dillema for me!
My solution is to listen long term. In the end, you get a good feel of the character of sound. Obviously that is not something you can judge in minutes.
Do the same "test" on fine wines, any gourmet food, fragrance, whatever. Short tests like that consistently fail to reveal any statistical conclusion.
So, what does it mean?
Either that we should all just buy the cheapest XYZ everything or that the test is faulty. I say the test is faulty and you say it ain't. Please offer a scientific way to resolve this shouting match... Good Luck...
snofun3
601 posts
 
OK Boa, I'll do it slow -

Serus - Long litany on why DBT is worthless, particularly when you can only remember sound criteria for about 5-10 seconds. If a $99 boombox is allegedly going to sound as good as a he-man rig as he assets, then cables / cords should be a infintessimally small change.

Evita's wife is a power and I/C critic - "Try making that argument fly with my wife. Claims to hear significant differences between cables and cords. What a fool, huh?"

OK, if you can only remember what something sounds like for 5-10 seconds, and can be fooled by a $99 boombox, then the way you can tell significant differences in cables and cords is??? So why not use DBT to prove to yourself at least that what you're hearing is a figment of your imagination.
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