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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Still
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12 September 2005 08:14
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Subject: Re: [slim] Re: Anyone tried making there own Cat5 Speaker Cable?

 

 

On 9/11/05, Pat Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

There does seem to be a lot of snake oil.
But a serious stereo can sound wonderful.


Indeed, but there are some diminishing  returns on investment.  I've read there is little difference in components between mid-range and top end stuff and that as you get 'higher' the proportion of the purchase price that pays for the casework increases exponentially.   This seems about right - high quality, low volume metalwork is expensive but there are only so many places to buy components. 

Cables and interconnects are pure snake oil.  It is possible to buy real crap ('pound shop' scart leads in the
UK tend to suffer all sorts of cross talk) but once you get to after market power leads you're really in the realms of fantasy.

 

 

On the subject of poncy cabling, beat this for the bullsh*t of the year award:

 

http://www.soundstringcable.com/

 

An excerpt:

 

Picture a heavily traveled two lane local highway with a variety of passenger vehicles and trucks traveling under ideal weather conditions at rush hour. Every driver is anxious to get to their destination as quickly as possible, but the volume of traffic demands that all vehicles must slow down. Travel at normal highway speeds becomes impossible. Then, the roadway widens into six lanes with a higher speed limit. All vehicles can now travel more independently, in the lane of their choice, and arrive at their final destination in a fraction of the time it would have taken on the clogged two lane road. This is how our patented Tricormaxial™ cable design works for your audio system. All signals and frequencies automatically and independently seek the path of least resistance. There is no discontinuity. Frequencies arrive at specific times perfectly synchronized with the recording that was made. There is no time smear, no filtration, no colorization. Everything is neutral. You hear a mirror image of the recording. The results are universal - any system wired with our cables, can and will achieve these results.”

 

What a load of rubbish.

 

;-)

 

James

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