High cost Speaker wire, interconnectors and upgraded power cords?
After reading about the merits of such upgrades-both positive and negative opinions, is there anybody who can offer some scientific facts that back up the claims that a vast improvement ( or significant improvement ) justifies the rather large amount of cash for such things? Or, as I suspect, they are mostly gimmicks for the audiophile that has too much spare change lying around?
Besides looking good, is thier a positive change in the MUSIC? Just curious how this site looks upon these upgrades.
Thanks to all! Happy Holidays!!!
not being an EE, I can only speak from experience
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last year I stumbled onto a good deal on RCA "interconnects" ...
http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...bles-NIB-cheap
bought 1 pair , took it home and compared to my only pair of name brand (AudioQuest) ones ...heard NO difference.
so went back over and over and bought all that I could ...then passed the deal off to my friends and forum members ...shipped them all over the USA and even to Oz ...you would recognize the names of the purchasing members as usually very audio quality conscious people.
these were well made, nice connector, Ch1nese produced Philips cables. I received only very positive feedback on the cables with no problems ...
(well actually the only problem was that there wasn't enough to fill all the requests.)
I rewired all my systems with those cables and nobody has heard anything to complain about ...in fact 1 forum member came over to pick some up and walked away with 10 pairs after the 250Ti demo.
(Hi Paul :wave:)
In my opinion, as long as a cable meets basic quality requirements, spending extra on designer cable is just a severe case of diminishing returns.