Unfortunately the world doesn't make ultra cheap cables that meet the "does the job" criteria. I think as others have said, aim to spend around £30 or so and you will get something decent that will give you 99.9% of possible "performance". Anything more is up to you but you likely won't get better, just different.
Personally I dont see any need to upgrade power lines however, having decided it's up to the guy who designed the PSU in my gear to deal with whatever comes down the power line. Beyond using a decent 13A well made cable, I never heard any difference from a power cable or power filter (unless there's something wrong of course..). For interconnects and speaker cables however I would agree there are minor variations. I wouldn't necessarily say it's in the "quality" in terms of distortion level or S/N but certainly in terms of frequency response or current handling and therefore big dynamic impact. Speaker cables much more so than interconnects. Even so, you don't need to spend a lot. But given that speakers are so bad and vary so much that's a better place to spend your time tuning your system than with cables, imho. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105775
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