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#23796 - 03/23/07 12:11 PM Re: Silver vs. Copper IC's, Bullett RCA or normal RCA?
Lizard King Offline
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#23797 - 07/14/09 09:49 PM Re: Silver vs. Copper IC's, Bullett RCA or normal RCA?
charlie Offline
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Originally posted by Videodrome:
However, your comments presume a lot and fall into the same traps I see with many people who have engineering / technical backgrounds: Namely, there is a presumption that audible differences in interconnects (1) either do not exist or are minimal; and (2) that looking at the cable solely from the construction / materials standpoint alone is somehow indicative of how it will sound in your system. [/QB]
Where I decided it was snake oil was when the same people who claimed they could hear cable sound started to claim the same for digital signal interconnects used for things like DD.

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#23798 - 07/23/09 06:35 PM Re: Silver vs. Copper IC's, Bullett RCA or normal RCA?
Ritz2 Offline
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Registered: 01/27/09
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Originally posted by charlie:
[QB] Where I decided it was snake oil was when the same people who claimed they could hear cable sound started to claim the same for digital signal interconnects used for things like DD.
I agree. Unfortunately, after someone has dropped hundreds or thousands of dollars on exotic cabling it becomes more of a bragging rights and face saving issue. So you'll be hard pressed to get any of those folks to say "er...it didn't really make any difference."

I remember reading a few reports of some of those MIT network boxes having either nothing inside or having a simple Zobel network to make flaky amps more tolerant of potentially bizarre impedance mismatches. However, try convincing someone who dropped a few grand on a set of speaker cables that it would be fun to open the little box at the end, possibly damaging the "bling" effect. Google is your friend.

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