Good USED XLR Interconnect Choices for $300-$400?

Ghstudio:

I see your point but I hear HUGE differences when I
try different cables. Some cables sound really bad
to me and then some make the system sound really good.
I seems like voodoo but I hear big differences..

You and many others here would likely go insane in a sound studio.....where the sound is mixed to sound good on various amplifiers, near field monitors and/or headphones none of which equal the perceived "quality" of the speakers and headphones used in some homes.

If you want to hear what the studio wanted the sound to be, you would buy a pair of high quality studio monitors and a high quality audio amp (crown, ....) and you would connect everything with Belden cables. Alternatively, get a pair of SONY MDR-V6 headphones :)

Ghstudio-On the playback end, cables are used as "tone controls". At least that's how I use them. In the pro arena, all they're looking for are cables to go long distances w/o hum.

Some folks might think buying an expensive wine or automobile is over the top, when you can go to the 7-11 in your Kia & spend $7.95 for their top shelf wine. It all comes down to what you want to do with your money & if you get satisfaction from pursuing whatever it is you're looking for.

Cardas Quadlnk , Cross, Golden Cross and Kimber Select copper, Kimber Hero.

Tom,

I'd submit the Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference (original version) as a very warm and musical interconnect. Tons of tonal color and image density with very refined highs.

Ghstudio, it makes not one bit of difference what the recording studios use. We're just trying to optmize the sound we hear in our own listening rooms using whatever means necessary to get there. If that means Belden cables and pro audio electronics/speakers so be it, but I suspect that if we duplicated as best as possible the equipment/cables used to make a recording in a studio it would not sound optimal in our homes regardless of how accurate it may be.

So your point is made that we put a lot more emphasis on equipment than maybe a lot of recording studios do, but it doesn't change or invalidate what we're after or how we'll go about trying to achieve it.