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Has Anyone Criticized The Choice Of Your Cables?

Has anyone, either a dealer or an experienced friend come over to your place and provide some constructive(or negative) critism to the choice of cables in your system? If yes, how would you deal with it? Recently I have a guy who came over and he was pretty vocal on the cables in my system. Although the choice of words were quite unpleasant, I just brushed him off in a friendly manner since I am an open-minded person. I was just wondering how one would react in these kind of situations.
ryder
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
hi ryder:

my point is that it is not worth being concerned over criticism of material things.

it is also a fact that it is difficult to evaluate the contribution of cable to the overall sound of a stereo system. there are too many vriables.

you have not disputed the bases of my arguements.

i rest my case.
muralman1
1,527 posts
 
Mr. Tennis,

On my system, I put cables in to two categories

1) They are winter coated

2) They are not winter coated

No. 1 tells me the cable will spoil the signal. That is some 98% of cables regardless of their price.

No. 2 has proved it's sound to be governed by whether the conductor is round or thin and flat. I prefer flat.

Simple.
ryder OP
1,690 posts
 
04-22-09: Mrtennis
it is also a fact that it is difficult to evaluate the contribution of cable to the overall sound of a stereo system. there are too many vriables.
Hi Mrtennis,
Try posting this in every threads in the cable forum. It would be interesting to see what responses you would get.

Again, you missed the point. I have not disputed your argument as it is not within the context of the point of discussion.
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
hi ryder:

again, you have made my case. if one criticizes, without a sound basis, ignore it. when you can't tell what's going on, there is no sound basis to criticize. this will not stop people from criticizing anything.

what am i missing ?
fpeel
455 posts
 
Add me to the list of those who've gotten grief over their cables. In my case it's been from my "technically knowledgeable" friends, one in particular.

"Why the fire hoses? Gonna get bigger sound that way? (snicker)" This was one of several jabs from someone I gave speaker cables that by his own admission improved the sound of his system. I reminded him of "the gift", then suggested in a friendly fashion that since cables made no difference he could return the ones I had given him. Surely zip cord would be as good? He stammered out a response equivalent to "that was different" and the subject hasn't come up again, though he does chime in from time to time on power cords.

It probably goes without saying that naysayers rarely change their tune. But it is possible to alter the frequency...
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