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JPS LABS ULTRACONDUCTOR 2 XLR Cable Review

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  • 1. Waste of money (piggy bank panther)

    Votes: 237 94.8%
  • 2. Not terrible (postman panther)

    Votes: 2 0.8%
  • 3. Fine (happy panther)

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VintageFlanker

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Thanks @amirm !

We're beating a dead horse here, but it is always useful for those who still doubt...

Cablophiles will still going in circles, anyway: "You listen to music, not to graphs", "I've been an audiophile for 40 years and I hear a significant difference", "Your system is not resolving enough"... Blablabla...
 

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JPS is one of the top brands in audio cables.

I'd be interested to see the standard of their internal termination in the XLRs. (easy to unscrew...) The look of the cable doesn't exactly instil confidence.
 

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In the UK JPS is a cigarette brand.

And their F1 cars always looked the best to me. Just class.

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Indeed, it is class, but under that exterior it's a Lotus/Renault. I wonder who makes the bulk cable that carries the JPS branding.
 

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Not feeling so bad about the Tributaries I purchased on sale back in the day. Thanks for the review Amir!
 

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Just the physical appearance looks like industrial instrumentation cable. They usually have multiple twisted pairs and a tough outer jacket. They typically are rather stiff with something like a 4 inch minimum bend radius. OTOH, I have some of the same WBC cables which are sinfully supple to work with.
 

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@amirm did you really hear a difference or it's sarcasm?
If you do uncontrolled test your basically 100% sure to "hear" differences Amir demonstrated a result of typical sighted testing , swaping the order of the cables might have yielded at different result :) In short if you listen to the same song 2 times in a row and think something has changed you can bet $ that a "difference" migth appear :)
 

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...."and pulled up my reference test clips."

Clips? You didn't use youtube, did you?

None compressed, std/high-rez music, we call "tracks"... ;-)

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The sad part is that most cables aren't even visible. Unlike some other snake oil, you can't show these off to your friends that easily.
 

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Second to that. As a child I was the greatest fun of legendary Lotus team. The most beautiful F1 branding of all time IMHO.
Yes, the black and gold looked great. That was when Fittipaldi was F1 champion.
 
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4. Great (golfing panther) 6.3%​

Uh huh. Riiiight. Must be the ASR troll percentage.
 

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Just the physical appearance looks like industrial instrumentation cable. They usually have multiple twisted pairs and a tough outer jacket. They typically are rather stiff with something like a 4 inch minimum bend radius. OTOH, I have some of the same WBC cables which are sinfully supple to work with.
Sinfully supple? Just how supple is that?
 

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