Al,
Correlation is weakened by the fact that people often try more expensive cable from the wrong family or their systems have poor transparency. Cardas cables, for instance, are praised by many for the warmth, while Nordost cables bring speed and resolution. Replacing bottom of the line Cardas with top of the line Nordost in bright system can make it sound worse in spite of much higher price - a reverse correlation. At the same time person changing from less expensive to more expensive Nordost might feel big improvement. Over the years I used few Audioqest ICs in my system (Topaz, Ruby, Viper, King Cobra) finding each time more refinement with more expensive cable and when I thought King Cobra is good enough to keep I tried Acoustic Zen Absolute that cost more. I've never seen reverse or no correlation perhaps because I targeted cables known as neutral sounding for neutral sounding system. Would it be better to spend money on something else? - that's another story.
Geoffkait, electrons don't travel at all - they vibrate standing in place since we're dealing with AC signals.
Correlation is weakened by the fact that people often try more expensive cable from the wrong family or their systems have poor transparency. Cardas cables, for instance, are praised by many for the warmth, while Nordost cables bring speed and resolution. Replacing bottom of the line Cardas with top of the line Nordost in bright system can make it sound worse in spite of much higher price - a reverse correlation. At the same time person changing from less expensive to more expensive Nordost might feel big improvement. Over the years I used few Audioqest ICs in my system (Topaz, Ruby, Viper, King Cobra) finding each time more refinement with more expensive cable and when I thought King Cobra is good enough to keep I tried Acoustic Zen Absolute that cost more. I've never seen reverse or no correlation perhaps because I targeted cables known as neutral sounding for neutral sounding system. Would it be better to spend money on something else? - that's another story.
Geoffkait, electrons don't travel at all - they vibrate standing in place since we're dealing with AC signals.