Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
Maybe they've just never bothered experimenting with cables. Just hooked the stuff together and left well alone, saving themselves £££s and a lot of grief in the process.
I only bought my first 'proper' interconnect cables because I had read about them in magazines and because I was not happy with my system and thought they might be a solution. Ditto with speaker cables. If there had no been a problem I would not have bothered as money was tight way back then.

I think they were the Tandy 'gold' interconnects which were inexpensive but a flavour of the month at the time (1991-ish).

They did improve the sound but were not a fix for the problem which later turned out to be that the kit I was using was crap.

Still, you live and learn. The point was the Tandy leads did indeed sound both different and, to me, better than the freebie leads they replaced.