musicloversaudio writes:
I love it that people think they can equal at home what takes engineers with decades of experience and 10s of thousands of dollars in testing equipment. If they could only listen to Gen 5 Transparent Audio Reference cable, they would cry.
How right you are. The poor noob, he’s being led down the primrose path. Just like all the other poor noobs.
Note the lack of people saying they went out and tried a whole bunch of professionally built product in their price range AND THEN made some DIY that was just as good for less. You will never see any of that because it just doesn’t happen.
The one guy here who admits to doing a lot of DIY cables also admitted (unintentionally!) he can’t even build them to sound the same left to right, and "fixes" his mistakes by replacing them with bought cables. No kidding. Not making this up. And people still think its great. That’s how whack it is.
And yes, as a matter of fact one way I know is I’ve tried it myself. Nothing I ever made came anywhere close to what I could have bought with the same money. Nothing you make ever does. If you stop and think about it for like 5 minutes, but then again maybe not we stopped teaching free market economy, logic, and reasoning long ago.
I had a friend who had to be the King of DIY. This guy has a whole workshop bench area in his basement where he has been making speaker cables, interconnects, and power cords for at least 30 years. Whatever DIY’ers think is the greatest coolest thing, material, geometry, technique, he’s done it. One day he calls up all excited to bring over and show me his Topper, the One Interconnect to Rule Them All. He’s compared it in his system and his sounds just as good. So he brings it over.
Well, that was fast. I mean I actually felt sorry for the poor guy. He did the same comparison in my system and it was obvious even to himself his DIY was nowhere near as good. NO soundstage, NO depth, NO inner detail, on and on, whatever sonic attribute you crave in audio his cable sucked it dry, spit it out and left it rotting in the sun. Then I pulled a dirt cheap cable from out of my old cables drawer. His DIY he had spent 30 years on was blown away by the oldest, cheapest, not even worth it to me to try and sell Synergisitic wire I had just sitting around in a drawer.
But hey, I’m sure the OP will do better. lol! Hey on second thought musicloversaudio you were wrong! lol! I’m not crying, I’m laughing! Whatever. Point is, its a joke.
