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Originally Posted by cscmc1
Anyway, yeah, I agree. Hi-end audio is disturbingly subjective, but one sad fact remains: unless you are a DIY'er, to get REALLY good sound, you've got to pay to play. The old Dyna stuff is good, but modding it makes it SO much better. That costs $ if you pay someone to do it... bummer! I am tinkering with different cables; I'll be damned if the super-high-$ solid silver interconnects I was loaned didn't sound harsh as can be on digital, but it sounded great between my phono-pre and preamp. There is a DIY speaker cable for SET amps made from CAT-5 networking cable. I was impressed when I heard it, and it's cheap. I need to find a spool of that stuff and have a go at that.
The pre-made cables and interconnects are scary expensive, and much of that seems to be snakeoil, as I'm sure you have discovered too. My friend designed and manufactured Sonoran cables and interconnects and used to send me all kinds of stuff to try out and evaluate. I got to keep it, and it is nice stuff, but he was getting some ridiculous money for his stuff.
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A few years ago, we did a blind listening test at my friend's recording studio in Atlanta, to find out how much difference there really was in the high-$$ speaker cables that are available. We tried most of the usual suspects: Mogami, Monster Cable, etc..... all the way down to the cheapo Radio Shack stuff, and some LAMP CORD!
For each test pass, we were using a track from a CD that we were all familiar with, through two channels of their vintage API recording console, into a pair of Yamaha NS-10 monitor speakers.
Most of us (there were 9 or 10 guys there, I recall) could here little or no difference between the various brands.... except for one.
Any guesses as to which one most of us thought sounded best?.......
We couldn't believe it when it was revealed which one most of us had chosen as our favorite......
You're gonna' laugh, but I'm serious........
The LAMP CORD! It seemed to have the best tone, and colored the sound the least. Amazing.
You never know..... Sometimes you DON'T have to spend a fortune to get good sound.
Mike