Correct sentence.so the QED cables areprobablyaudiophile nonsense.
Correct sentence.so the QED cables areprobablyaudiophile nonsense.
Yup. Thanks for that. However, they also have some speaker cables and fiber optical cables that are not quite as bad (only the cheapest models).Correct sentence.
I think I may have explored the outer reaches with some cable which I think cost about $20.I don't have a single cable that's $10 or more.
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To me, if a cable *alters* sound it is a horrible thing. And when it comes to cables, there is no possible "enhancing" over a plain copper connect. Any change people hear is sound alteration - a bad thing IMO, but to each their own as they say.I think I may have explored the outer reaches with some cable which I think cost about $20.
Seriously folks, electrical engineers figured out most of the cable thing way back at the turn of the century (the 1900 century). Please don't waste your money on snake oil and make snake oil marketeers richer than they deserve to be. If cable engineering weren't a well understood science, most everything we have now which remotely relies on electricity wouldn't be possible. Audio electrons aren't any more 'special' than the electrons which control your lawn sprinklers.
Seriously folks, electrical engineers figured out most of the cable thing way back at the turn of the century (the 1900 century).
Right on, I use neutral copper wires without silver-plating. Consumers don't gain anything from silver in audio cables. Unless the whole wiring inside the equipment is pure silver (then you might get a benefit from connecting with cables that are made of pure silver).To me, if a cable *alters* sound it is a horrible thing. And when it comes to cables, there is no possible "enhancing" over a plain copper connect. Any change people hear is sound alteration - a bad thing IMO, but to each their own as they say.
The only possible enhancement is cosmetic, which is why I pick good looking -but eminently neutral- cables.
Unless the whole wiring inside the equipment is pure silver (then you might get a benefit from connecting with cables that are made of pure silver).
All right, I have certainly never bothered to buy or listen to such equipment with wires made of pure silver...Nope. The resistance of the internal wiring would just go from inconsequential to pointlessly low.
The inferior conductivity of gold/rhodium
I do look forward to a day when I'll be able to replace all the RCA cables with XLR's simply for the superior connectors but I'm not buying new amps just for that. I just bought the most expensive cable of my life, a $99 40 ft optical HDMI cable on-sale from Monoprice, cause I want to move my music server computer further away from at AV system.. All the rest were sub $50As to the % in audible improvement between those considerations... I openly admit I'll never buy another cable, I have enough.
Luckily, silver sulphide is still fairly conductive.Silver doesn't oxidise much at all, it readily forms sulphides though which form as a dark tarnish.
Tell that to my GF. I have to shine her silver jewelry with a Dremel tool almost every week... :-DSilver doesn't oxidise much at all, it readily forms sulphides though which form as a dark tarnish.
Don't be so cheap and buy her gold.Tell that to my GF. I have to fix her silver jewelry with a Dremer tool almost every week... :-D
It is totally not by itself.Luckily, silver sulphide is still fairly conductive.