Has Anyone Criticized The Choice Of Your Cables?

Unfortunately, there are those aspiring audiophiles (and I use the term lightly) who do not hesitate to demonstrate their ignorance by criticizing ones cables before hearing them, or the system in any other configuration. If lamp cord sounds good, what is the problem? I have high dollar cables, and I have cheap stuff, and lamp cord is included. Not all high dollar stuff is good in every given situation. People who criticize cable before knowing more about a system obviously are a neophyte in their audio journey...... and hopefully they will be able to pull their head and ears out of their socket, take time to enjoy the music, have meaningful discussion with other music-philes, and have fun. Isn't that supposed to be part of all this? Jallen

Thank you for all your opinions. Actually he is a dealer carrying another line of cable(interconnects and speaker cable only) which he strongly advocates. He has a strong opinion on the type of cables that are to be used for a piece of equipment that I bought from him. He told me to ditch all my power cords away and use stock cords since in his view are doing something malicious to the sound that is not in-line with the idea of natural sound reproduction(he doesn't sell power cords). I personally don't think his priority is all about making more money out of his critical remarks but more to achieving optimum sound from the equipment that he carries, and he has more than 20 years in the business which is also another passion for him. For what it's worth, the designer of the equipment himself is not a believer in cables.

Maybe I am revealing too much now but guess that is the limit that I can disclose.

Sounds like you respect these guy's opinions, seems your bound to try their suggestions.

Don't you find it odd the one guy "strongly advocates" cables he carries! Now, to be fair, perhaps he has tried many others, still....

Advocating only stock power cables is very strange to me, what makes stock power cables inherently more natural than any other power cable, this is blathering nonsense.

Ryder, given your last disclosure, it would seem that you already have a pretty good idea of what to think about about that person's opinion. A dealer with strong opinions who 'strongly advocates' what he carries is, well, just that. If you believe the power cords sound better than stock, it's what you think which counts. If he is willing to back that strong opinion with a 3-week in-home demo of the ICs and SC he carries, well, that might be an interesting opportunity. If at the end you think it is worth changing, you learned something. If not, you learned something too.

What you have is a "Dear Ann Landers" situation, where Ann would say some combination of the response on the order of "Some people are rude and are just that way. If you don't like their rudeness, stay away from them." I would add, if you can make use of their opinion, why not get something from it.

For the record, I'm not going to try his suggestions of using stock cords. That is drivel to me as well but still it is solely his opinion. In order not to end up with a heated argument, his advice entered my right ear but went out through my left.