325xi;223922 Wrote: > That's discussed to death in "lamp cord" threads - not all cables are > manufactured to specification, and not all wire manufacturers offer > consistent quality from batch to batch.
I didn't suggest lamp cord - the Blue Jeans cables are good quality wire, the correct impedance, well terminated and with decent plugs (as much as RCAs can be!). They tick all the right boxes as to what a digital cable needs to be, and are about the lowest price product that does so. IME, this is the sweet spot before diminishing returns kicks in. I get much larger differences with analogue cables, and reckon that's a much, er, less bad place to spend your cable money! :) It's hard to discuss cables technically, as all the marketing material seems to have such a lot of straight BS or, at best, questionable science. There's also the repeatability of tests - often I think there is probably more difference from the cleaning effect of re-inserting plugs than there is from cables. My policy, which I guess does not make for a terribly interesting forum discussion, is to buy well-engineered good value stuff and just enjoy the music :) Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37983 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
