I hope this makes it to the google front page, so fewer people will be fooled.
It is even directional for bloody sake!
People hook them in, listen far more attentively, hear more detail because of that, but attribute it to the cable. That difference will be significant. Of course it will wear off as the investigation is over and the audiophile chases the next tweak....in all seriousness, why would you spend this much money on an rca cable anyway? What business do rca connectors have on high end gear?
These look really nice! Wow! As good as pro audio cables it seams...Sure. Here is a shot of it:
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Zooming in, I was surprised that it is made in Japan, Hitachi cable!
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It is even directional for bloody sake!
I wonder if it came with one of my high-end Sony DVD or SACD players of the time. It certainly has been a durable cable and I often use for S/PDIF connections.
Mind you, there was more air when listening to the Wind. But then my wife who was in the kitchen informed me that the dogs had left the patio door open and whether I was OK if she closed it. Once she did, the air factor disappeared.
Sure.Amir, please indulge us and also test the really cheap ones... The ones that have both signal conductors glued together with the molded plastic connectors.
Hitachi- makers of some of the best dinosaurian CRTs, and finest golfing-panther tier generic RCA cables :^)View attachment 89773
Zooming in, I was surprised that it is made in Japan, Hitachi cable!
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You can start your own high end hifi cable shop, count me in if you make money.The problem with AudioQuest in my Country, this is the only high end cable brand you can get in most Dutch hifi shops, physical or online. They have a so called monopoly in the Netherlands. So even if you beleve high end cables make a difference AudioQuest is the only one available. Good thing we have Amazone these days.
The sample I have was kindly donated by a member and costs US $2,300 in the 1 meter configuration.
We see that the AudioQuest Wind (red) clearly has higher mains noise. So I thought of a way to test susceptibility to mains noise by taking an AC transformer (from a desktop DAC), plugging it in and then holding it next to the cable.
What is that about? Are you going to carry this to your friend's house to show off? Or store the cable in it until the right romantic moment to pop it out to use with your system?
The problem with AudioQuest in my Country, this is the only high end cable brand you can get in most Dutch hifi shops, physical or online. They have a so called monopoly in the Netherlands. So even if you beleve high end cables make a difference AudioQuest is the only one available. Good thing we have Amazone these days.
Sure if you look around you can buy other brands, but the obvious shops in the Netherlands only seem to have AudioQuest..What about Van Den Hul?
Believe it or not, there is still a market for good crt TVs. They are pure analog, which matters for frame perfect inputs on vintage, analog video output games.View attachment 89782
Hitachi- makers of some of the best dinosaurian CRTs, and finest golfing-panther tier generic RCA cables :^)
Sorry i am a so called prutser like we say in Dutch. I will probably go chapter 11 very quickly.You can start your own high end hifi cable shop, count me in if you make money.
People will see Amir is up to his old tricks again. Trying to effect the reputation of a AQ by throwing in a ringer. A super special cable from yore while pretending it was some throw away just left hanging around.At first I was going to joke that it was nice of them to throw in a free audiophile-grade cable, but it looks like there's actually a fanbase for Hitachi LC-OFC cables. The LC-OFC (linear crystal oxygen free copper) process was patented by Hitachi:
"So the story goes... 1975, Hitachi developed their own method for reducing grain or crystal boundaries. LC-OFC is Hitachi's patented process and their exclusive product. After extrusion, the copper wire is re-heated, or annealed, which reduces impurities between the crystal boundaries as the copper crystal grows and leads to a longer grain length. A typical crystal (or grain) in a 1mm diameter LC-OFC conductor is 130 mm long."
https://theaudiostandard.net/thread/1117/lc-ofc
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4582545
So you actually have a rare and desirable free cable.