@ douglas_schroeder
Interesting regarding your use with the Hosa XLR's. It surprises me given they apparently use high purity copper and the actual connectors look like Neutrik brand. Oh well bad call on my part. The cost really starts ramping up with Audio Sensibility's system unfortunately. It appears Pangea has a modestly priced set of connectors (RCA) to implement parallel runs, as well as their own interconnects. I don't have any experience with their audio cables but do have one of their power chords which seems fine. Having owned and bought into hideously expensive cables in the past to the point of embarrasment its not likely I would ever repeat. At one point in my audio-foolish behavior I had more money sunk into cables than most people have in their entire two channel systems reading this thread. Never again.
Since those days I have made dozens of interconnects (not scientifically based) of my own design, all of them outperforming expensive cables. At some point along the way it finally sunk in that the vast majority of cables are nothing more than tone controls, and people use them to make up for some other anomaly (sound defect) in their systems. How else can you explain the vast amount of used cables on the market for sale on places like Audiogon.
Regarding the science of cables, if left up to me all cable manufacturers would be required to not only test and measure all of the necessary parameters but to also publish those specs in conjunction with their wild ads and claims. Perhaps many of you are aware of the extreme extent that Belden went into while developing their Iconoclast Cables. Its doubtful any other company has put so much science, technology and research into their cables. I don't have any experience with them directly, but have read all of the white papers and data that went into these cables. This is not to say they couldn't be improved by parallel runs however. While not cheap, they also are far from being anywhere near the most expensive cables on the market either.
Bob Smiths comments in your original article kept to the science which is important while trying to explain why there is such a difference in parallel runs. I found this appealing and compelling.
Interesting regarding your use with the Hosa XLR's. It surprises me given they apparently use high purity copper and the actual connectors look like Neutrik brand. Oh well bad call on my part. The cost really starts ramping up with Audio Sensibility's system unfortunately. It appears Pangea has a modestly priced set of connectors (RCA) to implement parallel runs, as well as their own interconnects. I don't have any experience with their audio cables but do have one of their power chords which seems fine. Having owned and bought into hideously expensive cables in the past to the point of embarrasment its not likely I would ever repeat. At one point in my audio-foolish behavior I had more money sunk into cables than most people have in their entire two channel systems reading this thread. Never again.
Since those days I have made dozens of interconnects (not scientifically based) of my own design, all of them outperforming expensive cables. At some point along the way it finally sunk in that the vast majority of cables are nothing more than tone controls, and people use them to make up for some other anomaly (sound defect) in their systems. How else can you explain the vast amount of used cables on the market for sale on places like Audiogon.
Regarding the science of cables, if left up to me all cable manufacturers would be required to not only test and measure all of the necessary parameters but to also publish those specs in conjunction with their wild ads and claims. Perhaps many of you are aware of the extreme extent that Belden went into while developing their Iconoclast Cables. Its doubtful any other company has put so much science, technology and research into their cables. I don't have any experience with them directly, but have read all of the white papers and data that went into these cables. This is not to say they couldn't be improved by parallel runs however. While not cheap, they also are far from being anywhere near the most expensive cables on the market either.
Bob Smiths comments in your original article kept to the science which is important while trying to explain why there is such a difference in parallel runs. I found this appealing and compelling.