I think this is good IC question

afterburnt

Do yooz use different IC's according to where they are in the chain? I would assume that your choice if IC's would be different for a TT but do yall try to select an optimal IC for lets say a CD player or out to an amp or do you run the same all over?

jeremymarcinko

I have a few different inexpensive cables but decent none the less. I like using the LC1 for my TT, but other sources I choose based on sound. The Bjc lc1 always sounds good to me, though.

mhardy6647

I think that the two variables I am most concerned about are length and electrical continuity.

Heck, I used to have a pair of "Monster" cables (courtesy of the "Yankee Swap pile" at the Harvard, MA, town dump) 'twixt preamplifier and power amp, but I got so much grief from some denizens of this forum that I swapped 'em for something else :- )

DSC_0586 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

I actually like to make my own (cables) -- and sometimes do.

I will never claim that different wires cannot sound different (they can, and do), but I eschew all of the sometimes laughably ignorant, pseudo-scientific (though most typically irrelevant or simply unscientific) black magic mumbo-jumbo that sometimes gets served up in the service of discussions of same.

mhardy6647

I hope that the ironic juxtaposition of the Monstrous cables and Mad Scientist Audio "Black Discus" demo thingies on the (cryo-treated?!?!) 18 ga magnet wire speaker cables in the photo above is sufficiently and obviously... ironic.

:- )

afterburnt

screw it I am gonna get some more BJC's they are cheap

F1nut

Bruce, MIT Shotguns....sound great everywhere.

afterburnt

Damn Jesse, that is way down the road. I just bought my daughter a car and that was not in the plan. I am broke@*&^%$#@#$##%^&*&*())_) mostly lol

tonyb

afterburnt wrote: »

screw it I am gonna get some more BJC's they are cheap

Yes they are, and they serve a purpose as well. Probably on par with Signal Cables analog 2's. Like always, audio is played on many levels and we have a variety of cables too that compliment that.

Mixed brands ? I have and still do. If a cable doesn't sound good to you in one spot, move it to another. Some prefer the same brand all around, and in some cases it's actually better to do that but it's not written in stone.

Experiment a bit, mixing brands of cables simply means your trying to offset a certain characteristic of one brand of cable you may not like. Depending on what they are hooked up to, and the build of the cable, they can sound different in various positions within your system.