Great...another cable thread

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2011
    tonyb wrote: »
    Guess I'm guilty of derailing my own thread here, eh?:cheesygrin:

    Kinda was my first post's point... :cheesygrin: ...so let me help you get back on track... :wink:

    First, want to say I'm glad you found another positive, audio move.... love it when that happens. And yes, I've spent over $80 on IC's. That said...

    The MFG's site's tag line is "Where Sound Meets Science". I'm really not sure where the science is here.

    Can't be the slapping flexible strip magnets as their static magnetic field would do squat in protecting the signal from spurious, external mag fields.

    So I'm thinking it must be in the pure silver plating of the OFHC copper wire... gotta get my skin effects read on... it's been awhile...

    But later...gotta watch OSU beat Duke now...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,967
    edited November 2011
    Guilty as charged Bruce....frankly though, I don't pay attention, or probably as much as I should to marketing voodoo. I just let my ears be the judge regardless if it has a flux capacitor in it or some other alien technology. My ears tell me these are a great bang for your buck cable, period.

    Incidently, the $80 cable remark was to thwart off the higher priced cables are B.S. crowd. I've had 300 buck IC's that I didn't like as much as these. Just sayin' is all. Doesn't mean all higher end cables don't sound as good either. Synergy is the word, seek it out.
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited November 2011
    pearsall001 wrote: »
    Ah geez Tony...you're no fun!! I was just getting ready to pop some popcorn & wait for the fireworks to begin. Glad to hear you found some nice cables that are working well in your system. I'm with you on not having to spend mucho $$$$$ to get great sound.

    My cheap Radio shack cables and stuff always sounded good to me........Still glad I bought MIT cables though.
    PolkAudioClyde
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited November 2011
    heiney9 wrote: »
    In my experience it's the DAC. It's pretty incredible how good a std. 16 bit recording can sound thru a really good DAC.

    H9
    I agree. Still loving my 15 year old Audio Alchemy Dac
    PolkAudioClyde
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,338
    edited November 2011
    Buy a nice turntable, set it up correctly with say a Denon 103R cartridge, a decont phono preamp (preferrably toobs) for your vinyl, and a decent SACD player for your CDs.
    Carl

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2011
    tonyb wrote: »
    Guilty as charged Bruce....frankly though, I don't pay attention, or probably as much as I should to marketing voodoo. I just let my ears be the judge regardless if it has a flux capacitor in it or some other alien technology. My ears tell me these are a great bang for your buck cable, period.
    Like I said, always glad to read about an audio grin... and in my case the grin size is always inversely proportional to the price tag. Problem I have is sooner or later I quit grinnin' and try to figure out why I was grinning... or in this case why you were. My curse I know. As you may remember, I am an Engineer... or at least was one once-upon-a-time. The rest was just thinking aloud...

    Along those lines... Thought some more and I do not care how strong their mag strips are, any external mag field will affect the IC signal exactly the same as it would if the ag strips weren't there. Also the site's statement about the signal generating it's own protective mag field because it's passing thru the permanent field... What???

    At any rate in this instance I blame you for getting me thinking... because your "digital/ silver" OP opening started me thinking, "Why does he think he's hearing the silver and not the copper core?" :cheesygrin: From the little description they have of the wire, initial thought was ultra-thin Silver coating on solid core, 22 ga HPLO copper, but have to admit I couldn't tell what the wire construction was from the pics of the spool, i.e., solid core or multistand.

    Plus you seemed to have been impressed right out of the shoot, as did another reviewer on the site. And if anything is even more universally agreed upon than silver-digital incompatibility, it's that silver needs extensive break-in. Of course that's just off of the top of my head... :cheesygrin:
    PolkClyde wrote: »
    I agree. Still loving my 15 year old Audio Alchemy Dac
    Which DAC? Huge AA fan here... DAC's (DDE"S), DTI's, DLC's, ... even have a supply of their RCA interconnects (not magnetically shielded... :cheesygrin: ), their HPA and the one amp they made. Need to try one of Dusty's Channel Island creations one of these days.
    schwarcw wrote: »
    Buy a nice turntable, set it up correctly with say a Denon 103R cartridge, a decont phono preamp (preferrably toobs) for your vinyl, and a decent SACD player for your CDs.
    AA made the VITB*, too... :cheesygrin: (*Vac-in-the-Box). It's a major grin inducer that I swear by...
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
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    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,967
    edited December 2011
    Bruce....lol!! Man I have no idea what that rant was all about but you sure got a chuckle out of me anyway.
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    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2011
    Then my work here is done...

    ... but it was a tad manic wasn't it? :redface:
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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