Expensive cables for expensive systems ?

[MF 1000]

All hifi items stand firmly under the Law of Diminishing Returns …..big changes in quality of a system (inc cables) from a base level per £100 going to micro levels per £100 once you breach a figure that we could spend the next 8 pages arguing over - “ starter for 10 “ as a well known quiz show says …..I’ll set it at £10k.

The other law that applies is AQL ….acceptable quality level
Some of us are happy with eating Aldi Baked Beans at 30p a tin ….other pick Heinz at £1.10 a tin - but they are both tins of baked beans fit for human consumption etc, the choice we all make each day is how much quality we can justify or afford.

 

[The_Krell]

¿Crees que las interconexiones son tonterías?

At last...an antipodean question mark!

 

[The_Krell]

Some of us are happy with eating Aldi Baked Beans at 30p a tin ….other pick Heinz at £1.10 a tin - but they are both tins of baked beans fit for human consumption etc, the choice we all make each day is how much quality we can justify or afford.

Heinz Organic Baked Beans knock the rest into touch (imo) £1/can at my local Waitrose atm.

Which reminded me of my niece in law proudly telling her father "...beans aren't grown in fields they come from a factory"...she was 15 at the time

 

[StingRay]

All hifi items stand firmly under the Law of Diminishing Returns …..big changes in quality of a system (inc cables) from a base level per £100 going to micro levels per £100 once you breach a figure that we could spend the next 8 pages arguing over - “ starter for 10 “ as a well known quiz show says …..I’ll set it at £10k.

The other law that applies is AQL ….acceptable quality level
Some of us are happy with eating Aldi Baked Beans at 30p a tin ….other pick Heinz at £1.10 a tin - but they are both tins of baked beans fit for human consumption etc, the choice we all make each day is how much quality we can justify or afford.

Sometimes the cheaper product is better, just like HiFi.

 

[rabski]

Sometimes the cheaper product is better, just like HiFi.

Sometimes, absolutely.

IME it's 'accessories' where the price-performance ratio goes in the bin, and cables in particular. Some of the worst cables I've had here, in terms of affecting the sound, have been eye-wateringly expensive, but so have some of the best. On the other hand, some of the cheapest have been excellent, but some have been truly awful.

 

[TIU]

It's all to do with colliding electrons

 

[Stuckinarut]

My cables use quantum entanglement.

 

[Tony_J]

My cables use quantum entanglement.

For what...?

 

[Stuckinarut]

For whatever the opposite of neatness is...

 

[on the rocks]

Cables don’t exist in isolation; their properties influence operation of source output stage circuits and pre-amp input circuits. When I tried different cables it was frustrating to find that more expensive interconnects were required for these circuits to perform properly. I settled on Chord Chorus. So maybe more expensive equipment need better cables? However I expect the BS overrides reality at some point

 

[2010*zuma]

Its claimed that many systems do not benefit from the use of expensive cables looms because they are not high resolution enough or, simply put, just not good enough to reveal the differences.

Is there any truth in this statement ?

I don’t really understand the question but I had 3 sets of cables that retail £21k I never had a problem with them.

 

[Jezzer]

I had some Branston baked beans recently. I suggest they stick to pickles.

 

[rabski]

My cables use quantum entanglement.

I use ordinary entanglement, but those damned quantums sneak in anyway.

Worse, I seem to use accidental entanglement, which means I spend half a day routing all the cables neatly and carefully. When I come to swap something in the rack at a later date, the whole lot have nevertheless become interwoven into some total mayhem.

 

[Non-Smoking Man]

Imagine what a 5 way active system is like - that's super-entanglement. Mind you as I have just swapped out the Ayre pre for a Django TVC, that reduces the items that plug in to just 13. Its small wonder I favour balanced connections..
Jack

 

[garn63]

Touch of brown sauce or marmite. Gourmet.


Mmmmmm !

 

[lazycat]

Touch of brown sauce or marmite. Gourmet.


Mmmmmm !

Is corralling baked beans similar to herding cats?

 

[Steveh]

These cable threads make me laugh.

Everyone knows that the true defining factor for sound quality in your system is which fuses you've used.

or how many shatski stones there are and in which positions?

 

[Tony_J]

Is corralling baked beans similar to herding cats?

Only after you've eaten them. The beans.

 

[Tony_J]

or how many shatski stones there are and in which positions?

They work best if fitted rectally, allegedly

 

[TIU]

Is corralling baked beans similar to herding cats?

No. It's a corale of beans, a murder of crows and a parliament of owls, who would do a better job of running the country.