Back In The Day..........

[icehockeyboy]

And I'm talking 30 plus years ago, when I was just a kid getting into this game, no one, and I mean NO ONE seemed at all bothered about after market cables, and happily used the ic that came with the kit, and bell wire was "de riigeur"

And indeed, did after market stuff even exist then, I certainly wasn't aware of it!


Don't get me wrong I am a firm wire believer, but wondered when the urge to cable swap started..........?

[Ali Tait]

I guess when people found it sounded better.

[worthingpagan]

And I'm talking 30 plus years ago, when I was just a kid getting into this game, no one, and I mean NO ONE seemed at all bothered about after market cables, and happily used the ic that came with the kit, and bell wire was "de riigeur"

And indeed, did after market stuff even exist then, I certainly wasn't aware of it!


Don't get me wrong I am a firm wire believer, but wondered when the urge to cable swap started..........?

In those days i recall you even had to pay extra for a mains plug! I think Kimber played a large part in convincing people to upgrade the cables that came free, back in the late 70's

[Stratmangler]

I remember using 100volt line PA cable to rewire a friend's speakers a long time ago. Must have been around '85/'86.
The improvement in sound quality was not a subtle one.

[hifi_dave]

Well, I was selling/giving/providing better quality incons and speaker cables to my customers in the mid 70's onwards. There certainly wasn't the vast range as there is now and most I made myself to suit the customer's needs.

I do recall being taken to one side and getting a severe talking to by my Editor of the time, who thought I was a loony and shouldn't be putting outrageous ideas in the mags...

After all, a cable is a cable. Right ???

[ursus262]

Well, I was selling/giving/providing better quality incons and speaker cables to my customers in the mid 70's onwards. There certainly wasn't the vast range as there is now and most I made myself to suit the customer's needs.

I do recall being taken to one side and getting a severe talking to by my Editor of the time, who thought I was a loony and shouldn't be putting outrageous ideas in the mags...

After all, a cable is a cable. Right ???

Right

[ursus262]

I subscribe to a different doctrine: mains noise, earthing, equipment support and good components, especially at the source end. Very conservative, me

[keiths]

And I'm talking 30 plus years ago, when I was just a kid getting into this game, no one, and I mean NO ONE seemed at all bothered about after market cables, and happily used the ic that came with the kit, and bell wire was "de riigeur"

And indeed, did after market stuff even exist then, I certainly wasn't aware of it!


Don't get me wrong I am a firm wire believer, but wondered when the urge to cable swap started..........?

When I first started taking an interest in hi-fi around 1976 or so, I remember an article by a French guy (EDIT: Jean Hiraga) in one of the magazines that suggested differences in cables. The first aftermarket cables I can recall were QED 79 strand speaker cable and (I think) "Gold Endz" ?? interconnects.

[sq225917]

The Jean Hiagra article was the start of it all.That signalled the end of the measurement lead hifi sales approach. Linn came up with the tune demo shortly afterwards and then Japan moved in with big knobs and flashing lights and everything was pretty much downhill from then on.

[worthingpagan]

The Jean Hiagra article was the start of it all.That signalled the end of the measurement lead hifi sales approach. Linn came up with the tune demo shortly afterwards and then Japan moved in with big knobs and flashing lights and everything was pretty much downhill from then on.

I dunno about that, i thought some of the jap stuff was pretty mean tbh