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Which Cables Are of Most Importance?

In a hi-end system, McIntosh, B&W, which cables will give me the most bang for the buck between IC's, speaker, power and HDMI? Which cables are most important and which are least important? Will concentrating my $$ in any one or two cables give me the most bang for the buck?
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jtimothya
612 posts
 
Article #3 from Cabling Your System on The Audio Beat speaks to this question.
pops
2,273 posts
 
Thanks for the link Jtimothya, an interesting read indeed. Always interesting to see such strong viewpoints on cables.
jkuc
181 posts
 
I've been playing with cables for long time. This comes from experience not from "I think, maybe, theoretically...
1 SC
2 PC
3 IC
4 HDMI
mwheelerk
121 posts
 
For myself I have experienced the greatest amount of impact from powere cables, then speaker cables followed by analog interconnects. Bringing up the distant rear are all shapes and forms of digital cables.
frogman
7,437 posts
 
Any information lost cannot be retrieved further downstream, no matter how good the cable (or other piece of gear) further downstream. Any distortion added to the signal cannot be corrected by a better cable (or other piece of gear) further downstream.
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