Good luck you will never get 90% of the performance of top cables such as Purist which i using at a very cheap price.Much of the cost is r&d materials and construction technics.Good luck though!!
Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money
I currently have a system which consists of Vandersteen 5A's, THor Audio TP-150 tubed monoblocks, Thor Line Stage and Thor phono stage, Marantz SACD player SA-114 and will take delivery of the VPI Prime Scout with a Sumiko EVOS 3 Cartridge. I am currently using LAT International Speaker Cables, Power Cords and Interconnects. (They are no longer in business). I am in immediate need of turntable cables and would like to update my new speaker cables and interconnects. Not willing to spend thousands on this upgrade. Seeking to capture as much of the "magic" that the super expensive cables deliver but at a more realistic price point. I understand that I have really good quality equipment, but at this stage of my life cannot allocate mega dollars towards cables.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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ebm nailed it ........ Your OP title is asking for a unicorn. There is one irrefutable and irrevocable basic tenet in this crazy hobby as you meander the Yellow Brick Road to Audio OZ: Everything is built to its price-point with a performance quotient in lockstep, and therefore you get what you paid for ...... full stop. |
You have a better chance of closing the gap if you purchase used. For interconnect cables something like Audioquest Niagara. Audioquest current Thunder powercord offers excellent value and you should be able to get the recently discontinued Wireworld Silver Eclipse 7 speaker cables for a decent price. |
If you select and pick carefully in the used market and avoid those marquee names that for whatever reason command used values far in excess of their relative worth (i.e. Nordost, Transparent) then you can do very well (btw not meaning to say that these aren’t great cables, just that their used values are much higher than equally good cables from other manufacturers, good if you are a seller, bad as a buyer) My rule of thumb for used cables (assuming not current models) is as follows (recognizing that no one ever pays full list for a new cable as well) - reasonable price range 30-40% of MSRP - excellent value range 20-30% of MSRP - a steal (or a fake, be careful) - less than 20% of MSRP Avoid paying more than 35% of retail unless you really know you want that cable Consider for example this "steal" that someone made yesterday http://echohifi.com/details/12661/Shunyata_Stratos |
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