Cables do sound different...a little. But for HiFi stores' profit margin...a lot! This is the legacy of the Head Monster, super salesman Noel Lee. IME, compared to room acoustics and proper speaker placement, they matter little. High value brands like WBC or BJC are good enough for all but the real esoteric "everything matters" crowd, with pocket depth to match. Look inside classics like a Marantz or ARC tube component...no teflon insulated linear crystal unobtanium wire, oversized capacitors, etc. Best sounding classical records ever made? Living Stereo. Decca. Living Presence...alll made without exotic mic cables or parts.
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That's an excellent suggestion, to bad the millions of others who thought of it didn't do it? Perhaps it was because something still had to be plugged in which would require a special very expensive power cord to connect to standard inferior house wiring? Also the manufacturers of all equipment use the required quality wire for their product, I can buy a $2000 6 foot cable to go from the amp to the speaker and then it into an extremely poor quality wire according to the cable gods for the last 4 feet of wire inside the speaker, does not make any sense at all? |
@jji666 It bothers you please do not hurt me. |
As long as our ears remain "analog" there will be the need for amplifiers to "motivate" speakers via cabling -- even it's internal. Quality matters -- even SHORT distances. If I'm following your logic here, my best response is that products with everything "on board" are still very limited in selection and may not offer all that a listener is looking for in the year 2024. 2034? Maybe. |
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