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A New Believer

I have listened to many systems over the years, and have never appreciated the difference speaker cables can make to a sound. In fact, I was so skeptical of the sound changes they can make that I have always not bothered with any special type of cables, generally going for generic (and dare I say it) roughly made ANY copper wire plugged in to amp and speaker. Well, imagine my surprise when I decided to do a blind test and listen to what difference cabling can make. Wow, my Vand 3A Sig's had been getting strangled! (some of you guys may want to strangle me if I told you what connects I had been using). So I am now a firm believer, cables DO make a difference.
joshc

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douglas_schroeder
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What's humorous is when the experience of hearing the difference is made so easily available, yet people will harp on its impossibility. I have little time for people who in their arrogance insist that efficacious changes in cables are impossible.

There will always be cable skeptics, since the ability to hear such changes is predicated upon the quality of the system, the room and hearing acuity.

The more I'm in this game the more I realize there are a LOT of guys who have bad ears; they have such diminishment of hearing that they'll never be able to discern such differences. That adds to the frustration of the ongoing discussion.

There are also a lot of guys who are so proud, so rock-headed that they will not try something unless it's their idea. The kind of man a woman laments being married to, the opposite of the users of the tweaks of questionable value. :)
douglas_schroeder
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To be a skeptic you have to deny proof which is not available yet. How much cultural (as in audiophile culture) and personal bias (as in, "It doesn't seem logical, so I'm not going to try it") influence which proof is deemed impossible and wich is deemed unaccessible is an interesting topic.
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