michael123;573906 Wrote: > You will be surprised, but I measured system response of my system with > different cables and saw some variation in midrange (couple dB). > Measurements were consistent, I repeated few times.. in one case there > was correlation with our listening experience > > Also, Transparent and MIT are not really just wires.. FYI > > Is there something you DO think makes a difference in sound? > [ because some people here think DAC sound same.. for example ]
Oh yeah those strange network at the cable ends , that would make them different ;) actually a wire should be just a wire ? Speaker wire can have an measurable impact if the speakers have very low impedance or are very reactive, bot not a couple of dB ? that suggest that almost half of the voltage is dropped over the cable in certain frequencies ? that must be something wrong with that design of one of the tested wires, a short thick cable with low inductance that's a good speaker cable. Do you have old infinity speakers or appogee scintilla's . You can also have problems with amp's with high output impedance (tube amp's with output transformer's ) they change frequency response depending on the load impedance Long runs of very thin speaker wire can be measured for shure in some cases. with some speaker, but thats speaker wires and the remedy still cost only a couple of dollars. Signal cables not so and I think most of the discussion in that link was about signal cables . But maybe in "audiophile engineering" you can find design that reacts in strange ways to signal cables :-/ The danish brand Holfi actually had a CD player that outputted much more distorsion in to a normal 10kOhm preamp input than to thier own preamps with 800 Ohm input's ? -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
