Do XLR cables ever get tired?
recommends for interconnects?
Looking to replace old (and tired) MIT shotgun XLR interconnects between Mac 402 amp and Levinson pre and CD player.
there are so many cables and reviews and opinions out there. Looking for similar or slight improvement in sound, but under a few hundred dollars. Is that even possible? 1 meter with XLR terminating both ends.....
Ideas and thoughts much appreciated.
david
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+1 @jafox - likely no. The low budget would be a challenge just moving up from a stock cable. |
Do you know whether your MITs have had time to fully burn-in yet? I have a similar requirement to connect a SoulNote Equalizer’s balanced output. Their own interconnect cables are unshielded, solid copper in foamed FTPE dielectric. In other words, vastly different from multiply shielded, stranded exotic alloys found in almost every other cable. The reason is interesting. SoulNote says music is a waveform delivered in time, not a Fourier transform delivered in the frequency domain. Almost all cable measurements focus on the frequency domain. Why no shielding? Well, the cables are balanced so EMI should equally affect the + and -, cancelling out. Shielding increases capacitance, which smears the signal in the time domain. |
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