Monster Cables Vs....

steveinaz

I have a box full of brand new .99 cent IC's, anyone who feels cables don't make any difference want to trade their current IC's in on one of these fine IC's? Afterall, wire is wire, no?



That's what I thought...

Give it a rest guys, the hypocricy is a little more than I can bare. (Doc Holiday)

Yashu

Wizzy, that study has been confirmed as best it can be. It holds up. I read it as well, and several independant studies in confirmation.

The best we can do with CD is make sure those upper frequencies are rolled off and not clipped (loudness war casualty is that most CDs have clipped HF parts). People regard the sound of LAME 320k mp3 to be good, even audiophiles, because of this. The encoder makes sure to shape the upper frequencies so they have a natural rolloff, so a bit of extension is lost, but it isn't unpleasant. I am not saying that this is an audiophile format, I am saying that it is important whether the limit is 22khz or 48khz, or 16khz, whatever... that clipping, noise, and other problems will make a difference.

Another reason why a square wave response for an amp is important, because the faster the amp, the better it can reproduce those upper bands without distortion.

Jitter, with certain DACs, can cause crazy weird HF bands, since the signal is constructed from vector curves... so a little jitter can create some harsh ultrasonic distortion fairly easily. Jitter is often not something that is noticed outright, since it is 'felt' in a similar way as what those studies have shown about ultrasonics.

With cables, everything is taken into account again... inductance, capacitance, resistance, and other things like solid core sheeting of current. All these effect the signal, and audio, being an a/c signal, the HF are going to be effected again more here too.