Bake Off At Mine

[CageyH]

In all fairness, Jim, the SPOTFIRE were very noticeable. I made a comment elsewhere on the forum, that Interconnects can have as much influence as changing a component. That was scoffed at yet today Macca's comments confirmed what I already knew.

The incumbent cables were purchased to match other components from the same brand.


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I would hardly say scoffed at. For a cable to have a massive difference, the one it replaces has to be pretty crap.

[Bigman80]

Nope, it was scoffed at or at the very least dismissed.

And no, are you telling me you couldn't hear the improvement between a Sony ES amplifier and your Firebottle stuff? Neither are crap, but the improvements are noticeable. Same as with a cable. That's the point I was making. The changes are comparable with changing a component.

For a cable to make a difference of that level, the system need to be capable of displaying it. Macca's is.

Also the same comment made by Macca without any prompting. From a cable sceptic too!!!!!

I would hardly say scoffed at. For a cable to have a massive difference, the one it replaces has to be pretty crap.

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[CageyH]

Nope, it was scoffed at or at the very least dismissed.

And no, are you telling me you couldn't hear the improvement between a Sony ES amplifier and your Firebottle stuff? Neither are crap, but the improvements are noticeable. Same as with a cable. That's the point I was making. The changes are comparable with changing a component.

For a cable to make a difference of that level, the system need to be capable of displaying it. Macca's is.

Also the same comment made by Macca without any prompting. From a cable sceptic too!!!!!

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No, I could not tell you I could hear an improvement between a Sony ES amp and the Firebottle stuff. I have never heard a Sony ES stereo amp. Apart from that mere technicality, I have heard small differences when changing equipment, as well as bigger changes. It depends on the synergy in the system. When cables get to a certain level, the changes are pretty minor. If your cable is the one I think it is (and there is not much choice for one that fits in a KLEI harmony) then I have already tried it. It is a good cable, butI prefer a different cable, and also different plugs.

Part of my original change to the Air was that performance to my other amps was very close. Selling my other amps allowed me to upgrade other parts of my system. I don’t regret my choices one bit, but would be surprised if a cable made a bigger difference. People that have heard my system have said it sounds good and is nicely balanced. Your opinion could be completely different and that would not bother me one bit. After all, I built my system based on my tastes and space constraints.

The comment about having a system capable of revealing a change in cable at a certain level makes me giggle. It is almost implying that my system is not capable, although I know you probably don’t mean this intentionally. I would be interested to know what cable you replaced with your cable. As Macca is a cable sceptic it probably wasn’t particularly good?

You must be doing something right with your cable though, as the majority of the feedback seems positive, but as with everything there are a few exceptions.

[Macca]

I would hardly say scoffed at. For a cable to have a massive difference, the one it replaces has to be pretty crap.

Lets not get ahead of ourselves here. I never said 'massive' difference. There was a pretty obvious difference which I know from experience would deteriorate to a tiny difference in an unsighted comparison. But there was still a difference for me and it was a good one.

[Macca]

My EE is a whiz even with CD players, pretty confident he'll get it back working properly and it should be fine for a long time then.


We could have used it for the bake off as we only played tracks not whole albums, which it still does fine, but it was cutting out at the same time point on every album so the problem should be easy to isolate at least.

[Macca]

The amusing thing from my point of view is I was expecting the big revelation to be the DB1 but instead it was the interconnect cables.

I did have some reservations about the DB1 but I'd rather have a longer time to evaluate it before I'll commit to saying for certain. But I thought a couple of times I could hear a little distortion in the bass. Only twice and slight enough to be questionable. I am thinking about getting one to experiment further, so it wasn't that I wasn't impressed. It has potential.

[Gazjam]

Music is an emotional experiece, therefore hifi quality is subjective.
”That” song heard in the car that really affected you...your brain did that.

The guy heard what he heard (or felt?) at the time..

s’all good.

[Barry]

Music is an emotional experiece, therefore hifi quality is subjective.
”That” song heard in the car that really affected you...your brain did that.

The guy heard what he heard (or felt?) at the time..

s’all good.

+1

Good post Garry.

[Macca]

Music is an emotional experiece, therefore hifi quality is subjective.
”That” song heard in the car that really affected you...your brain did that.

The guy heard what he heard (or felt?) at the time..

s’all good.

I agree, But I don't just own a decent transistor radio with a good 'tone' , and neither do you.- I like the fun involved in getting it technically better than that even though I acknowledge that 'Brown Sugar' is a killer stone groove no matter what's replaying it.

[walpurgis]

I acknowledge that 'Brown Sugar' is a killer stone groove no matter what's replaying it.

So is 'Drive in Saturday' by Bowie.


(actually, I've got a mate called Tone who's got a decent transistor radio, true)