Ste7en
Distinguished Member
Maybe its time for graphic equalisers to make a come-back ?
I'm assuming you use no form of Re-EQ
Maybe its time for graphic equalisers to make a come-back ?
As we move more and more to wireless methods of connection then the accessory business will no doubt invent cans of audiophile air to improve wireless transmission fidelity - never underestimate their ability to invent then un-necessary based on FUD and dubious physics
Obviously the cable companies will move into flogging us oxygen free air to flood our listening rooms with.
"the idea of using a higher quality cable to attach a printer in the pursuit of higher performance is entirely absurd."
Probably why nobody even thinks this.
You can't compare listening to music with printing a Word document, but I understand the sentiment... to a degree.
MONSTER!!!!!There’s always plenty of folk out there daft enough to buy this stuff and with enough money too. So daft that you wonder how they got the money. Even now you still get people who will claim one hdmi cable will give them a better picture and sound quality on their tv even when you try to explain to them how hdmi works. I’ve given up trying to educate them
"the idea of using a higher quality cable to attach a printer in the pursuit of higher performance is entirely absurd."
Probably why nobody even thinks this.
You can't compare listening to music with printing a Word document, but I understand the sentiment... to a degree.
..and therein lies the rub. What is it we are trying to achieve? What the studio engineer heard when he mixed the track on a pair of very neutral sounding monitors? What the musician heard in his earpiece / monitors when he played the piece? What the vinyl / CD mastering engineer heard when he produced the studio master? What the pressing engineer heard when he was QA'ing the pressings?
Nobody, as far as I know has actually defined what the 'end sound' is supposed to be replicating ?
Another one that always got me...
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I can’t say I have tried this but really?
Adam.
If you've a system costing just a few quid, I've no doubt that any well-made and appropriate cables will do the job. But if you're trying to achieve some version of nirvana, why skimp? I can't really say whether particular individual elements of my stereo's power conditioning, cabling or isolation add the element of magic I seek, or whether the individual boxes well-matched and set up in the room was all that mattered, but either way, magic there is.
If I ever hear similar from a system with cheapo cables, I'll be duly impressed, but it hasn't happened yet. Or anything close. I post a photo for the amusement of the lighting flex brigade; that's only the left power conditioner, so I'm a double sucker?
I'm fully aware of the irony that my entire surround system cabling loom cost less than any one of these cables (barring the 12v triggers). But I sincerely doubt that loom was hand made the thousand naked virgins who toiled on my stereo, and can only speculate whether explosions and car crashes would sound better if it were.
........and they need to be a double anticlockwise helix twist in the northern hemisphere to be truly effective.Picture looks like a PS Audio Demo; however, even IF the cables did make difference, the cable management is so bad that it would totally negate it.
Bill