Second Round of Questions on Speaker Cables


Following up on a post of a couple months ago. Running Audience AU24SE cables but looking for something with more "body" if such a thing exists. But I do love the open, airy and even frequency balance of the Audience. A buddy runs Cardas cables and loves them but Audience not so much. So I was asking what else besides my Audience. Two answers were in the majority:

Stick with what you like, Audience, but go up in the range. Or, try Cardas. 

So went for with AU24SX and really like them. Better than the SEs, maybe a bit more body.

Then tried the Cardas Clear Reflections. What I find is an emphasis with the mids and upper bass. Great for music with an emphasis on vocals maybe, but for my wide-ranging likes of rock, jazz, and occasional vocal-centric music, just not right with that lower-end emphasis.

FWIW, Bryston amp, Spatial Audio and Rogue pres, Sopras.

So still looking but not sure where to go next. I realize I'm being a little vague, but there's so many other options out there and it's impossible to try them all. Open to suggestions.

Thanks.

 

jaybe

> I feel bad for the folks who can’t hear a difference between cables

What can I say on that?

I feel bad for the folks who does not realize that there is no such thing as "sound signal". 
The fact - it is a plain bold electricity obeying plain bold laws of physics. Once you realize that, you will understand why audio cable (electrical wire) does not affect a sound signal (electric current) the way you see it.
Tear apart you fancy speaker cable - what do you see? Do you see some special circuits tend to improve a sound? Nope. Just plain old copper wires. No shielding, ether, as it is not needed in speaker connections.

By the way. You have a cool expensive wire connecting your amplifier and a tall tower speaker, 3-4 feet in length. Do you realize that another 3-4 feet of wire is connecting components inside of your speaker box? Do you think it is some kind of a special wire? Well, open your speaker box and surprise yourself.

Good luck spending your bucks, if that makes you feel better.

@ionna22 I don’t expect that you’ll respect this, but I’d ask that you take your rants elsewhere. You have no audience here, your persuasive skills aren’t all that great and nobody is interested. Four Agon posts, and everyone a troll post. I can only hope someday Audiogon lets us block posters.

I find the deniers odd. If I thought cars were just transportation and not different... I wouldn't join a sports car forum and tell them they are crazy to think there is a difference. I would go somewhere that interested me. 

But there were many stories of Covid patients yelling at the doctors that there was no such thing as Covid... right before they died. So, I guess not hearing, or denying the basic tenets of high end audio is not much different. 

@jaybe  Best course of action is to ignore. Don’t respond. You can’t fix deficiencies in their hearing. Nobody cares what they have to say. 

@jaybe Agree partially with audphile 1 -- on best course of action.  I disagree that nobody cares what "they" have to say--i am interested in what both sides of this issue (and many others) have to say and you don't have any right telling someone not to post--how many posts they have is irrelevant--so typical of cancel culture to attempt to quash someone's opinion because you don't agree with it.  Obviously this is a hot button topic, has been debated ad nauseum and likely neither side will change the other's opinion but you, or they, might change mine and others willing to listen--remember that it's only your opinion and it's only theirs and both have the right to express it--otherwise the forum isn't one.