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Cables= Rip off
It's true that any company looks to profit from their efforts but most of them do not work at the 300% profit margins that were my experiences with selling cables.
I do not claim for one minute that all cables sound the same but I DO claim that any cable with a fairly normal set of electrical characteristics will sound much the same as another. Why not just get tone controls if you seek to change the sound of your hifi by manipulating cable types?
As for Silver vs Copper I changed from VDH CS122 to Furukawa PCOCC speaker cable one's silver or something the other is copper, made not the slightest difference sound wise IMHO although as the Furukawa was longer it meant I could put my speakers where I wanted, now that improved the sound no end!
I see this thread has gone exactly where anyone would have expected ... Cables make a difference or not, oh yes they do, oh no they dont etc etc .
Assuming that most of us here are more "into" hifi than Jo public and that all of us would easily notice a change of cartridge for example it seems proof of the pudding is the fact that we don't agree on cables. If they were capable of such night and day differences surely we'd all hear it immediately or are the believers really saying that the rest of us are deaf?
I think that what's going on here is a simple case of wishful thinking. After all wouldn't it be great if a 100 pound interconnect could really "improve" your system. I just don't believe it!
It's true that any company looks to profit from their efforts but most of them do not work at the 300% profit margins that were my experiences with selling cables.
I do not claim for one minute that all cables sound the same but I DO claim that any cable with a fairly normal set of electrical characteristics will sound much the same as another. Why not just get tone controls if you seek to change the sound of your hifi by manipulating cable types?
As for Silver vs Copper I changed from VDH CS122 to Furukawa PCOCC speaker cable one's silver or something the other is copper, made not the slightest difference sound wise IMHO although as the Furukawa was longer it meant I could put my speakers where I wanted, now that improved the sound no end!
I see this thread has gone exactly where anyone would have expected ... Cables make a difference or not, oh yes they do, oh no they dont etc etc .
Assuming that most of us here are more "into" hifi than Jo public and that all of us would easily notice a change of cartridge for example it seems proof of the pudding is the fact that we don't agree on cables. If they were capable of such night and day differences surely we'd all hear it immediately or are the believers really saying that the rest of us are deaf?
I think that what's going on here is a simple case of wishful thinking. After all wouldn't it be great if a 100 pound interconnect could really "improve" your system. I just don't believe it!