ralph re cables up to a limit around where BJC or similar companies operates I'm with you, but not after that then it's markup and fancy design.
Or worse, I have in my closet cables that are actually worse than the free ones thrown in the box, but very cherished among some audiophiles . aplhacore did a somewhat decent speaker cable albiet circa 20 times to expensive for what it is, but their signal cable design is simply wrong. or vdh's carbon fibre cables a hoax imo Many things are just cargo cult design, sometimes they do aply some EE to it but not always, sometimes the design actually is strange enough to sound " different " ;) in reality performs worse. so it is a free for all and not easy to see who's serius. a teltale is if the company offers 500$ usb cables or 1000$ spdif cable or very expensive powercables , then i would deem them completely untrustable, if they lie about their usb cable what about the rest, so scrap those from the list of brands to do bussiness with. so belden canare and some other brands that is used by broadcast companies is on my list nowdays. You can get belden cat5 trough BJC . US or EU made cables are safe bets, belden is a US company. You can get very bad cables if buy the cheapest chinese made ones, then you can get problems. HDMI or USB that simply are not up to spec and don't work as they should . Or they chinese ones could be disguised as hi end cables... so it is possible that someone got things improved with expensive usb cable if he simply owned an flawed cheopo cable before, but a better one may cost 20$ not 500$ to replace the 5$ cable. i do like quality cables , but they don't cost near as much as the typical hi end brand. After a certain piont you simplynget nothing more for your money. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
