a great take on big$ cables


i was talkin to a friend about cables & wire's & no matter how hard i try to tell him its not needed he wont budge because he has heard that big buck wires are the way to go,i even showed him this web page & after reading it his response was this "if they didnt work then why would they sell them" after talking for hours i gave up & gave him a demo,he heard no difference & neither did i but he still believe's.

there isnt alot of info published on wires except by manufacturer's so i thought i'd post this so every body could enjoy it.

this is a link to roger russell's web site where he gives his thought's on wire's & cable's & reports on blind testing that was done,if your not familuar with him he was a audio engineer for many years & from some of the gear i own that he designed i'd say a damm fine engineer too.

if you are of the belief that big buck cable's are not worth using you may get a chuckle but if your a firm believer then you might be bummed out,anyway's here's the link if you care to read about wire's.

{http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm}
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Stever: You're absolutely right. And no one's ever claimed otherwise. All that's been claimed is that one brand of 12-gauge copper cable sounds exactly like another. If you want to make cables sound different, you have to make them *very* different--greatly increase resistance, or monkey around with capacitance and/or inductance. The former will attenuate the overall level of the signal, while the latter can cause frequency response roll-offs. Why you'd want a cable that wasn't flat is beyond me, but there's no accounting for taste.

BTW, weren't you the guy who was planning to audition Transparent cables? You might want to take a look at what they're really made of:

http://cable.tcnerd.com/whymit.asp
Pabelson:
You're ignoring all the cases where people have claimed to hear differences
Did I at any time claim that these "people" are right?!
Let's be very clear about this: I'm only responsible for my own observations or claims and have no desire to defend someone I don't even know.
Pabelson: yes, I have seen that, thanks. I'm still curious what it sounds like. I mean, there are filters in most other components, why not in the cables? ;-(