When I got my HDTV, I was in the market for HDMI cables. Not knowing much about the new cabling, I went to Circuit City where I saw the Monster ones for $89.99. I was shocked. After a little research online, I found I could buy an HDMI cable for $12 that would do the same job.
My telephone line knew he was going to say that.
Monster Cables - P.T. Barnum
I wouldn’t consider myself a stereophile, but I can detect marked difference between the way my music sounds when played on my computer with iTunes and how it sounds coming out of my car CD player from a burned cd. The sound isn’t as rich on car stereo. I haven’t figured out if something is being lost during CD burning, my CDs are of poor quality, the speakers in my car don’t have the audio range that my Bose headphone on my computer has (quite possible), or my CD player doesn’t have the audio range as the sound card in my computer. Or some combination thereof.
The Amazing Randi!!
(chuckle)
Amen.
I see nothing wrong with spending $2100 on a Marshall amp if you can afford it. But cables for that much money?
I guess you don't want to hear about the 12AX7 vacuum tube preamp I have in my computer mouse then.
I too have enjoyed Randi's work and efforts.
But oxygen free copper speaker cables allow the music to ‘breathe’ and sound ‘more airy.’ Cheap hardware store zip cord ‘restricts’ the music.
Some audiophile claims aren’t BS at all; the quality difference between stereo equipment can be immense. But I agree with Randi on this — $7000 cables? Lunacy.
Are they saying the cables aren’t better or that they are better, but the average person can’t tell the difference?
Suckah be born ebry minnit, you know what I’m talking about?
I’ve seen people wire their stereo or hi-fi speakers with eentsy wires, like 22 ga telephone wires. That’s clearly wrong, speakers being driven with real power require current, sometimes considerable current, and tiny conductors indeed act like resistors, the longer they are, the worse.
In professional sound-reinforement applications, like traveling rock shows, another consideration is that the cables undergo a lot of flexing when they are put in place and taken down multiple times. So, not only do they have to carry a lot of power, they have to not degrade by losing conductors under rough treatment.
That said, with the proviso that it’s possible to make crappy connections using even mil-spec wire and connectors, once you have adequate gauge cables, the obsession with welding-gauge speaker wires is laughable.
Ping to you Stickman.
You’ll like post #11 lol
Good. Audiophiles are nuts, and most probably support Ron Paul.
What would I know, I’m a scratchy FM bebop jazz buff.