Mnyb wrote: > Yes , but the die yards can just dimmis it by saying that a mess of low > price cable is no better than one low price cable . > > Hence , me thinking it would be a gem to have something cherished and > well praised in the so called " audio press" . > > In fact I would not be surprised if one could find something that was > actually worse , I've seen some unorthodox approaches over the years > deviating from impedance specs etc . > And sometimes it seems that the "manufacturer" ( in reality brand , it's > often made in china or surplus , normal cable in nice jacket , maybe > it's not originally audio cable which makes it unusual ) simply re uses > his purchase of cable to more areas now sudenly the much coveted analog > cable makes an excellent digital,due to the hand beaten silver made by > monks in himalaya :) > > Or alloys ? Silly but true . > > I actually owned defect cables , Van Den Hull the Second which is made > from carbon fibre which is a conductor but worse than copper , but it > was supposed to sound much better than metal , it probaly acted exactly > the same as a copper cable with 50ohm in series . > And also alpha core , who makes flat solid single core speaker cable > with very low inductance , but they made signal cables with same > geometry which is plain silly ? different application altogether ( of > course no screen on the signal cables ). > I actually wonder if not their raw product has some other application > where the same stuff can be bought at 1/100 of the price.
When I get around to it to check out the dealers in town, will ask about borrowing something "cherished"! Over the years I have never seen any audiophile magazine publish the graphs I've shown - ie. exactly identical graphs for various digital cables - has anyone? Maybe an independent publication like 'The Audio Critic' may have. It's of course not in the interest of advertisers / manufacturers but I assume also the readership hasn't been demanding for it either... I wonder do most people accept the idea that measurements are worthless, or that the "sound of music is too complex" to be correlated to measurements, or maybe most audiophiles just know intuitively the truth and just don't want to know. Sorry to hear about your experience with high-priced-defective-by-design cables. Just terrible. And I assume the reviewers must have just loved those cables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98620 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
