home made speaker cable vs. the big boys

If DIY cables are so great, how many mastering studios make their own??

Tm12, I think you misunderstood me, I am talking about mastering studios, ie where you would master a cd for example, they do not mfgr. cable and I would think that they want the signal as neutral as possible.

In the current issue of Sterophile, Bob Ludwig (gateway mastering studios) states they only use Transparent Ref. Transparent also lists in some of their adds, recordings that have been made using their cables. I am sure they are not the only "high end cable" being used in all the recording studios.Just the ones that care.

I agree that the studios do not pay we do for cables, but chances are they have a choice between paying the same for all of the brands (next to nothing) but they still choose the "high end ones", and if bits and bytes are all the same then we should all just go out and buy a sony and be happy with it.And on the point of "secret sauce" being added, you can't polish a turd, if it was recorded with improper e.q. due to cables that color the sound you can do a lot to try and fix it but in the end the less you mess with an audio signal the better things turn out. If I see a so called "musician" lip sync on t.v. they just suck, if you can't play it live then you are not a musician, you are an actor.

Gmkane, like you said, Ludwig can make anything sound good, but it all comes down to this. He wanted the best reproduction of the recording he is mastering possible, and he chooses Transparent to do this. We as audiophiles are seeking the same goal, the best reproduction of the recording possible, granted we will never be able to match what is (gateway) studio. I still stand by the you can't polish it statement, because that is what it will sound like , polish.

I would think that if they where paying him that you would at least see him in a add. This was just an interview.Do you think he is also being paid by Eggleston Works? I just don't believe that this would be a very good way of promoting your product. Just allot of industry people watching you, not really to many audiophiles. When was the last time he was interwiewed by Stereophile? I can see him getting them free but I do not know about being on the payroll. But then again I do not own a studio.

No I do not know Bob, but I doubt he filled his studio with the equipment that came banging on the door with fist full of cash. More likely he got what HE wanted and of course recieved a discount, maybe got it free, hell maybe paid 3x retail, this could go on and on and on......

Just got off the phone with Bob. He now uses lamp cord from Home Depot, they offered him more money. JBL, Bose, and Kenwood are meeting with him next week and they are talking serious jack.