Cables - When Did it All Start?

My first audiophile cable purchase also occurred about this time, (mid 1970’s).

Mine was the Peterson Litz, a tiny diameter interconnect with a jewel like jacket and gold RCA connections. I found out later it was manufactured from surplus military aircraft communications cable.

Steve McCormack was the culprit that introduced me to this high end cable. I clearly remember being confused as to why it effected performance (wire is wire).

Unfortunately for me, the Peterson was soon defeated by later versions from Peterson, followed by Cardas and Audioquest (among others). Fast forward to today and find my personal bank account empty, due to the stunning performance offered by Purist Audio Design.

Considering the evolution of speaker drivers, power supplies, digital players and phono cartridges, it was only a matter of time for high performance cables to be recognized as components instead of accessories.

Actually Sean, there are 41, 667suckers born every minute. At least according to this web site:

http://www.tootsie.com/product.html

Leica_man, I too owned Randall Research cables about that time. Do I remember the full name was Randall Research Symmetrical TX?

I had issues with their unshielded design. Two different radio stations came through my turntable unless they were "dressed" just so. Not an easy task as these were inflexible and the RCA terminations would fail, even if slightly abused.

Before Randall Research I used Peterson Engineering cables. Ken Peterson basically bought surplus aircraft coax and terminated it with high quality ends. That was in the 1970's when this was a foreign concept to most audiophiles.

Leica_man, good to see your reply posted :^).......I knew it would show up.