How much money do you want to waste?

OK, copper, silver, or titanium?
assuming that interconnects etc make a big difference, is there a formula for what material is "better" and how does one categorize and order according to quality? I have seen prices range from $80 to $10.000 for just a set on interconnects.
joeb

Look, let's make this simple.

I do not doubt that people "hear" differences in cables. But let's look at facts and not subjective opinion.

Open up any piece of audio equipment and look inside. See all those copper traces on PC board running inside? THOSE are your interconnects and speaker wires.....those are what carry the audio signal around between passive and active modulators. The paths represented there are 30 times longer than your measly 1.0m interconnect or 10 times longer than your lousy 8ft. of speaker wire. AND....those traces are DOING NOTHING......but are under infinitely more stress from interference and signal alteration from EMI and stray capacitance INSIDE of a component than they would be OUTSIDE of it........but does anyone worry much about that??? Well, actually DIY builders do (hence a preference for point to point wiring), but commercial manufacturers certainly don't, and mostly rightly so......

But talk about cables and logic goes out the window......

Again, I don't doubt that people hear or think they hear differences in cables.........I have found that the lower the resolution of the system, the more *evident* a *change* in cabling will be......

Try and concentrate on upgrading the resolution of your audio circuits, and you won't have to worry about the cables that connect them......

Dbdicker: I like your taste in books too.

Sincerely, I remain

I just had an epiphany that what ASA is talking about has alot to do with classical conditioning.

It's quite abstract.

Anyways, I think he was talkin about the evolution of terminology being used in audio--how visual words such as resolution, bright, dark, openness, etc became daily jargon in terms of describing audio.

Classical conditioning is when a subject is sharing one stimulus response to various stimuluses. Consequently, when we see sudden flash of bright light, we evade our eyes from the source. This is tantamount to our ears wanting to evade a sound that is piercing our ears, because it is too bright.

So, we have two different types of stimulus, but only one word to describe the two differenyt stimulus, because there is only one stimulus response.

So, we describe, or give adjective, to stimulus, not based on the stimulus, but rather, based on our stimulus response to the stimulus.

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