I don't believe cables make a difference, any input?

[Andre Visser]

Originally Posted by Salas

Depends on the task. My amp can get capacitive enough cable, ain't a Spectral or a Naim, its DIY $700 in parts, so I go 3082 in my speakers for instance, since I use Speakon too. Not heavy currents bcs they are 95dB and my amp is 20W triode so its OK it isn't heavy. Interconnects I go thin too. Has a thin line. I generally avoid much metal. Akward, non bending, and if there is something into materials, certainly less can be better. You would like the 2803 for IC because you are a cable guy, but its a pita to strip and solder.

Interesting Salas, I've never tried a coaxial speaker cable, will have to get some.

I could not find a 2803.

[SY]

John: From your instrument???? It's an MI cable?

[jlsem]

Originally Posted by SY

John: From your instrument???? It's an MI cable?

Yes, it's the Mogami cable.

http://www.mogamicable.com/cab_assem.../platinum.html

They're everywhere, they're everywhere!

John

[Andre Visser]

Originally Posted by cbdb

SPL at your head.

My thinking is to keep the FR of all equipment flat, then sort out as much of the room effects as possible with speaker / listening position, bass traps, diffusers and absorbers. EQ only make for a more complex signal path and I believe that only result in loss of detail and focus. Not so sure that our brain are that sensitive to small variations in SPL caused by the room.

[BudP]

Is that mid-fi?

Doug,

Since you still have disposable income. Go here, buy a pair of Fonken cabinets with Fe 127 eN drivers.

http://www.planet10-hifi.com/

Wait a bit while craftsmen do their thing. Hook them up to a reasonably good quality 40 watt amp and begin to find out what the next level in audio is about. Quite a bit beyond the high end you are currently aware of. And, some pretty decent cables for pretty nice prices can be had, if you like.

Bud

[Andre Visser]

Originally Posted by jlsem

Found this copy on some audiophool cable website. What hilarity!
John

Oh shucks, then pro-audio have audiophools too, what now!

Perhaps they started to learn after-all.

[jlsem]

Since you still have disposable income. Go here, buy a pair of Fonken cabinets with Fe 127 eN drivers.

Unfortunately, single-driver speakers (especially small ones) represent a road that dead-ends in a short distance.

John

[Salas]

Originally Posted by jlsem

Yes, it's the Mogami cable.

http://www.mogamicable.com/cab_assem.../platinum.html

They're everywhere, they're everywhere!

John

Originally Posted by Andre Visser

Oh shucks, then pro-audio have audiophools too, what now!

Perhaps they started to learn after-all.

He, he, I am ahead. Both studio construction quality and price, plus the literature to boast as an audiophile. Hey dig that, mine are compatible to the original mix tonal shading, because they have been there somewhere.

[wintermute]

Originally Posted by Kawaski11

What does being a videophile have to do with it? Are you saying HDMI cables will change video quality?

Well I know one thing... digital can suffer from bad cables too... I couldn't play DVD's on my linux HTPC.. the errors I got in the syslog when googled always turned up the same thing... "Buy better quality SATA cables"...

Eventually I did, and what do you know I can now play DVD's.. Now I suspect in this case it is more the connectors on the ends of the cables than the cables themselves, but I had tried at least 4 cables (all cheapies, some sata and some sataII), and none had fixed the problem. When I got the "special shielded ones" that cost three times as much (as a last resort) to my surprise it started working.

Good old composite can suffer from bad cables too. I had a (supposedly better than normal quality) video RCA lead from Jaycar which when I used it there was a wide band down the middle of the TV set, it was quite noticeable. If I swapped to another RCA lead it completely went away. And no, I no longer use composite

Tony.

[BudP]

Unfortunately, single-driver speakers (especially small ones) represent a road that dead-ends in a short distance.

That's now a used to be true comment John. I know, everyone of them you have heard sucked. Everyone of them I had ever heard also sucked.

Was at the PNWAS meeting over last weekend, with a demo set up, not double blind, just casually informative, about what is now possible. At the end of the show Rene' Jaeger demanded that the Fonkens be brought into the main room and hooked up.

They absolutely trashed everything but one pair of speakers, built by Dave Rosgaard, and this included a pair of Geddes waveguide speakers. This is not to say that ANY of the speakers there were poor in sound quality, most were very good. It is just that the Planet 10 connfections embody a technology that steps quite a bit beyond what is common in audio.

Enough so that small single drivers can, except for matters of volume and low bass performance, handily exceed the performance of multi driver systems, designed and built with care by folks who frequent this forum. These products of skill and thought have absolutely nothing to apologize for, they just did not have what the Fonken's had.

Bud