Alright folks,
It's time for me to tell the whole story I've been through... the one about audiophile BS cables .
The sickness lasted few years, after the beginning of my journey in audio. Thing is, to be honest, that I always doubted about the purpose of these expensive cables. But once you're a newbie, your only source of information is audiophiles in real life, or ones from many forums. And as we already know, 90% of the hobby is dominated by subjectivits. Here is what I was saying few weeks back:
Few years ago, I started to realise something: If I didn't know what cables were playing in my system, I was simply NOT able to tell any difference whatsoever, whatever it was speaker, interconnects, or digital cables.
I searched for quite a while about blind listening test of cables, measurements etc. Then, I simply understood that all the pro world uses industry standard brands like Mogami, Canare or Belden. I ended up by thinking about cleaning up my system from all the useless audiophile cables I had on hands. Funny thing is: I always sold them extremely fast (mostly the same day I put them on sale). That shows how strong is the demand for these BS tweaks.
So let see, what I previously used and what I own right now. Spoiler alert: my new cables don't sound worse, nor better... just the same at a fraction of the price.
Power cables:
- DIY Acrolink 7N with Neotech OCC power plugs (250€) -> DIY Furutech OCC with Neotech OCC power plugs (about 200€) -> Sold.
- Pair of DIY Oyaide Black Mamba with Furutech copper power plugs (160€ each) -> Sold one, I kept the other for my Apollon AS1200, for no reason...
- Supra LoRad + Supra Mainblock MD06 filtered (239€) -> Sold the cable, kept the mainblock.
Digital cables:
- Oyaide DR-510, Pure silver COAX Cable (180€) -> Audioquest Cinnamon COAX (65€) -> Sold -> Canare 75 ohms cable (34€) and AmazonBasics Optical cable (6€)
- Supra USB (35€) -> Atlas Element USB SC (55€) -> Sold -> Lindy USB shielded cable, with ferrite core (9,90€)
Speaker cables:
- Acoustic Revive SPC Reference, OCC solid core (300€ pair) -> Qed Genesis Silver Spiral (500€ pair) -> Atlas Hyper 3.5 (700€ for two pairs, bi-wired + 350€ for another pair + 70€ for Jumpers) -> All sold -> Canare 4S11 (30€ for a pair of 3M + a little DIY work) and Mogami 3103 (45€ for a pair of 2M). Still have Triangle Symphonie SYS30 (189€ pair), for sale soon.
Interconnects:
- XLR: Audioquest Mackenzie (150€) -> Wireworld Eclipse 7 OCC (350€) -> Audioquest Yukon (370€) -> Sold -> Mogami 2534/Neutrik (45€)
- RCA: Real Cable RCA (40€) -> Atlas Element Integra (50€) -> Atlas Hyper DD Integra Duo (270€) -> QED Signature Audio 40 (240€) -> Atlas Equator Integra OCC (130€) -> Sold -> Mogami 2964/Amphenol (28€)
Pure bullshit:
- Furutech Nano liquid (100€) -> Lost!... what a shame...
Well, if I do some simple maths here, I can't even imagine I spent so much money for basically nothing but my ignorance at the time...
...Thanks to Audioholics, ASR, objective datas and me - stop being stupid and brainwashed: this will never happen again.
It's time for me to tell the whole story I've been through... the one about audiophile BS cables .
The sickness lasted few years, after the beginning of my journey in audio. Thing is, to be honest, that I always doubted about the purpose of these expensive cables. But once you're a newbie, your only source of information is audiophiles in real life, or ones from many forums. And as we already know, 90% of the hobby is dominated by subjectivits. Here is what I was saying few weeks back:
On the more serious part tho, this kind of belief costed (wasted) me thousands of Euros over the years...My sickness changed a bit in the last few years. I discovered ASR in 2018, but was a reader of Audioholics and Archimago before. I'm not that old, and my journey in High-Fidelity only started twelve years ago. Since the beginning, I always doubted about audiophile myths, but were wrongly thinking the majority must have been right. I took me several years to understand that Audio is not a democracy. Objective performance is a proved fact and not subject to personal preferences.
Few years ago, I started to realise something: If I didn't know what cables were playing in my system, I was simply NOT able to tell any difference whatsoever, whatever it was speaker, interconnects, or digital cables.
I searched for quite a while about blind listening test of cables, measurements etc. Then, I simply understood that all the pro world uses industry standard brands like Mogami, Canare or Belden. I ended up by thinking about cleaning up my system from all the useless audiophile cables I had on hands. Funny thing is: I always sold them extremely fast (mostly the same day I put them on sale). That shows how strong is the demand for these BS tweaks.
So let see, what I previously used and what I own right now. Spoiler alert: my new cables don't sound worse, nor better... just the same at a fraction of the price.
Power cables:
- DIY Acrolink 7N with Neotech OCC power plugs (250€) -> DIY Furutech OCC with Neotech OCC power plugs (about 200€) -> Sold.
- Pair of DIY Oyaide Black Mamba with Furutech copper power plugs (160€ each) -> Sold one, I kept the other for my Apollon AS1200, for no reason...
- Supra LoRad + Supra Mainblock MD06 filtered (239€) -> Sold the cable, kept the mainblock.
Digital cables:
- Oyaide DR-510, Pure silver COAX Cable (180€) -> Audioquest Cinnamon COAX (65€) -> Sold -> Canare 75 ohms cable (34€) and AmazonBasics Optical cable (6€)
- Supra USB (35€) -> Atlas Element USB SC (55€) -> Sold -> Lindy USB shielded cable, with ferrite core (9,90€)
Speaker cables:
- Acoustic Revive SPC Reference, OCC solid core (300€ pair) -> Qed Genesis Silver Spiral (500€ pair) -> Atlas Hyper 3.5 (700€ for two pairs, bi-wired + 350€ for another pair + 70€ for Jumpers) -> All sold -> Canare 4S11 (30€ for a pair of 3M + a little DIY work) and Mogami 3103 (45€ for a pair of 2M). Still have Triangle Symphonie SYS30 (189€ pair), for sale soon.
Interconnects:
- XLR: Audioquest Mackenzie (150€) -> Wireworld Eclipse 7 OCC (350€) -> Audioquest Yukon (370€) -> Sold -> Mogami 2534/Neutrik (45€)
- RCA: Real Cable RCA (40€) -> Atlas Element Integra (50€) -> Atlas Hyper DD Integra Duo (270€) -> QED Signature Audio 40 (240€) -> Atlas Equator Integra OCC (130€) -> Sold -> Mogami 2964/Amphenol (28€)
Pure bullshit:
- Furutech Nano liquid (100€) -> Lost!... what a shame...
Well, if I do some simple maths here, I can't even imagine I spent so much money for basically nothing but my ignorance at the time...
...Thanks to Audioholics, ASR, objective datas and me - stop being stupid and brainwashed: this will never happen again.
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