Do cables make a difference?

[Firebottle]

Just think what you could do with a set of these:

https://www.futureshop.co.uk/nordost...erminated-pair



£37,350!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well chop my toenails off with a flymo, they even have the audacity to offer Deoxit contact enhancer for an EXTRA £3. On that price!

Plus the price is for 1m lengths

[walpurgis]

But it might be quite good .

[ReggieB]

A friend of mine leant me some pairs of expensive cables to try. The thing that surprised me most was that one pair made my system sound worse. I wasn't expecting that. My take was that cables make a difference, but not always a good one, and that expensive cables can be a miss-match in your system just as cheaper cables can. Try before you buy!

[Pigmy Pony]

[QUOTE=ReggieB;1340122 The thing that surprised me most was that one pair made my system sound worse. I wasn't expecting that.![/QUOTE]

Of course if you were a potential buyer the salesman would have an explanation for that Which would lead to even more expense.

[Barry]

This thread is suffering from AoS's notorious thread drift. It is largely my doing, but I fear some of the posts may have put Stuart off experimenting with cables.

The best advice to Stuart was given by Adrian (AJSki2fly), with which I concur.

[Us-&-Them]

IF YOU ASK ME, A SIMPLE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IS........................... IT'S ALL A PILE OF SHITE!!!!!!!!

[Firebottle]

Don't agree but you've certainly made your point.

[Pigmy Pony]

Those kind of prices look crazy to most of us, but then the "modest" amounts we spend often don't make sense to Joe Average - my brother doesn't get it, he has Amazon Echoes scattered around his home which sound "more than good enough". But he'll happily spend big money on bicycles (he only has two legs) and various carbon fibre bits to make them an ounce or two lighter (A Slimming World membership would be much cheaper). They're all hobbies, which rarely make sense to outsiders.

Personally I could have a dedicated listening room built onto the house for that kind of money, but the bloke who buys that cable probably already has one.

[walpurgis]

Hobbies tend to bring out the obsessive tendencies in many. Glad I never took up golf or fishing!

[Pigmy Pony]

My few hobbies (motorbikes, archery, hifi) come and go - I stick with one for a few short years, realise my limitations, get bored, move onto another hobby, then return a few years later. I sense the archery thing making a return soon. The hifi thing has run for more than ten years this time round, which is way longer than normal. Probably down to the nutjobs on here keeping me interested

Two of my old hobbies (weight training and judo) have long gone now. And they're not coming back. Though I may join a gym if they offer an old fogey discount.