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A butt-load spent in cables - how much improvemt?

We spend quite a bit in cables for our systems, I'm wondering how much overall sonic improvement we get from cables? Let me explain my thought.....

I'm very happy with my current cabling (IC's, PC's, digital coax, and speaker cables). I was thinking about removing ALL of them and putting in ALL the original stuff I started with (stock PC's, cheap Monster IC's, Monster digital coax, and Monster XP copper speaker wire).

Then listening to the system to see how much degradation in sound I would have. Has anybody else thought of doing this or has done this?
vman71
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Mlsstl, it is semantics. Since some cables sound better they must of necessity be passing the signal better and/or keeping spurious signals out better. They are subtracting less in the first case or adding less in the second case. I don't know what this perspective adds to the discussion, however.
mrtennis
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a cable does not sound better or worse in one stereo system or another. the stereo system may sound better or worse with one cable or another.

a cable does not change when it is inserted into one system or another. it is the same cable. how can it sound better or worse ? the cable sounds the same regardless of where it is placed. the stereo system is affected by the cable.
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Again, this is semantics. What we learn is which cable sounds better in our system.
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