Kimber RCA Cable vs Amazon Basics (Video)

[Grenadine]

If you're not into shopping on Amazon, I've found Apos Flow cables to be a really great value if you need a short cable. Quality seems to be really good and they're braided, and feel and move nicely. $35. They feel better than monoprice as well. I believe the longer RCA's sell out faster. The have lots of headphones cables at the moment.

Apos Flow RCA Cable (Pair)

A cable built with common sense Our Apos Flow RCA Cable isn’t rocket science. It doesn’t involve rare earth materials or dizzying design innovations. It simply does everything an RCA cable needs to do: it works. We use two cores of highly conductive toughened copper, wrap them in five layers of...

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[tineared]

I do.

Perhaps you could incorporate the Benny Hill theme music into some of your videos...

 

[MattHooper]

A little reading now...

"The 6065 is a delicate balance of 2/3 copper and 1/3 pure silver utilizing both VariStrand and solid core conductors. This synergistic blend of metallurgy and conductor design strikes a keen balance between detail, transparency and a natural tonal presentation. The 6065 will maintain complete dynamic control over your loudspeaker while preserving balance within the audio spectrum.
Incorporating both VariStrand and solid core copper conductors, the 6063 was engineered to extract all the performance copper has to offer. The all copper design results in a rich, dynamically robust presentation while producing naturally layered lifelike soundscapes"

 

[MattHooper]

It’s a service to the broader community who will find this on a web search to keep them from being scammed

Yeah, I don’t get those type of comments:
“ I know this already - why does anybody else need to learn it?”

 

[MattHooper]

Great video and test Amir!!

I’m always down for the debunking of this stuff and it makes important waves in the audiophile community and educates many people. (which you see from the many thank you comments). It’s already being shared on forums.

A note that in the Reddit Audiophile forum, which I’ve always believed to skew somewhat younger than the legacy audio forums, there is very little pushback against the results of the test. Most seem to be appreciative, or say that the results aligned with their expectations about cables. So I do think perhaps there is less buy-in to pseudoscience, at least in some ways, among the latest generation of audiophiles. That’s just mostly my speculation based on anecdotal observation.

 

[sabih]

No rca cables ....just rca connectors and highest quality sound.
Plus magnet wire as speaker cables.
Cheapest way to get high quality sound.

 

[mhardy6647]

A little reading now...

"The 6065 is a delicate balance of 2/3 copper and 1/3 pure silver utilizing both VariStrand and solid core conductors. This synergistic blend of metallurgy and conductor design strikes a keen balance between detail, transparency and a natural tonal presentation. The 6065 will maintain complete dynamic control over your loudspeaker while preserving balance within the audio spectrum.
Incorporating both VariStrand and solid core copper conductors, the 6063 was engineered to extract all the performance copper has to offer. The all copper design results in a rich, dynamically robust presentation while producing naturally layered lifelike soundscapes"

I am struck by the turn of phrase keen balance.
I am guessing this means that the first, second, and maybe even third derivatives are zero, but maybe we're teeterin' at the fourth derivative?

No rca cables ....just rca connectors and highest quality sound.
Plus magnet wire as speaker cables.
Cheapest way to get high quality sound.
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That is epic.

 

[daniboun]

No rca cables ....just rca connectors and highest quality sound.

I imagine that's ironic?

 

[BlueTunes]

If you want to gain technical knowledge of your next purchase, well yeah. Constantly reviewing cables that you already know before testing are going to work exactly the same as a cheaper cable, is just dumbing-down what this site is supposed to be.

How often have you physically come across a DAC? (which are in fairness, 10-a-penny) Vs a $4100 hyper audiophile audio cable?

It's a unique situation which has rightly been taken advantage of to the advantage of everyone involved except the company who makes them.

It's a Hifi unicorn. You don't catch one of them every day now do you?

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Are you sure...I heard my radiologist only use kimber cables in his MRI for more resolution,Also uses power conditioners from PS audio for the CT scans.

 

[daniboun]

Dont forget this... This is what you get for a $ 4000 cables...Let's protect our health and our wallets )))

 

[Leeken]

Dont forget this... This is what you get for a $ 4000 cables...Let's protect our health and our wallets )))

I don’t live in California so am I immune to this type of cancer

 

[milanjeromos]

I do.

yaaay!

 

[JSmith]

Dont forget this

Yeah, basically in relation to Prop 65 for California customers... it's on many products there. Due to phthalates/plasticisers, metals, solder and flame retardants etc.


JSmith

 

[solderdude]

No rca cables ....just rca connectors and highest quality sound.
Plus magnet wire as speaker cables.
Cheapest way to get high quality sound.
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L and R not swapped this way ?
Can be corrected by swapping L and R speaker connections of coarse.

 

[Mnyb]

If you want to gain technical knowledge of your next purchase, well yeah. Constantly reviewing cables that you already know before testing are going to work exactly the same as a cheaper cable, is just dumbing-down what this site is supposed to be.

Almost all cables do exactly that* working the same that's the point of the review .

* fit for the application is a factor with some weird high end cables and the absolute cheapest ones.

 

[Mnyb]

Isn't the shielding part of the cable??? It is like saying you are testing the car but test only the engine or test it only in drag racing.

yes and kimber sometimes omit the shields for "reasons" so it would be a valid test on some of their stuff ?

 

[Mnyb]

They have a customer service ? rather "customer disservice" . " god day sir how can we scam you today . Cables or real estate abroad"

 

[JSmith]

This poorly constructed RCA cable is simply highway robbery. They do make many unsubstantiated (and impossible) claims on their website... starting to breach false claims of a product surely.


JSmith

 

[Bogda]

This brings back bad memories from my audiphool days. I bought into two stupid concepts in one go: Kimber cable and bi-wiring. Back then, the kimber cable was only about $40 (probably $100 today inflation adjusted).

I was 100% sure I could hear better bass with the cables because that’s exactly what the sales person programmed me to expect. Back then, I could have gotten 3-4 CDs for that price. Having said that, I still have the cables and they work and look fine.

I always taught that main purpose of +1K$ cables is that paying 100$ or 200$ for a cable sounds reasonable.