square_wave
Well-Known Member
All this nonsense about wires, beyond the actual kit is all bollocks. I must admit that my speakers are triwired...with just the speaker cables costing 2.5L . That's just the speaker cables, and Iam not even taking interconnects. Now add power conditioning and power cables to it...thats another 3L of it. 5.5lL to try to optimise a system which still sounds crap to my ears.
So get the basic synergy between source, pre amp, power amp and speakers right first. All these fancy wires and power treatment is just Trying to smoothen out the rough edges on the sound that your kit makes. It is never going to change "the sound" if you don't like it to start with.
So spend money on these at the end, when you are wholly happy with your system, and have no plans of a upgrade for the foreseeable future, and just want to optimize what you already have. And I still can't promise beneficial results.
If I said I was a cable non believer straight away, I would have been scoffed at. Now my speaker cables, interconnects, power conditioning and vibration control alone account for almost 8L. And I still say cables don't matter a donkeys ass..
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Strong statement but I understand were this is coming from. From that context, it is correct.
If you have focussed performance goals for a system, after careful speaker positioning and important acoustic tweaks, the system should be able to satisfy those goals (at about 90 to 95 % ) with decent quality wires from the likes of Mogami, belden etc. These are wires that are in use at studios worldwide and they do the job quite well. If this basic level of satisfaction is not there, that system is not for you. You need to do a system revamp. Rethink your priorities according to taste and setup a different system. This is where professional help is very important. This help can come from very experienced dealers or even seasoned audiophiles.
Wires give you that last 5 percent or in some cases 2 or 1 percent. For many people that last bit of tweaking is very important. But they cannot solve problems like basic system incompatibility with the listener.