Some make ridiculous products and claim massive improvements all while knowing their item does nothing but bring a placebo effect to the buyer who spent that cash and now has to justify that cash outlay. You always hear the term “Snake Oil” in high end HiFi and yes there is quite a bit of that in the audio industry. Snake Oil? It exists…but not in the well known brands that have stood the test of time. If your system is set up with a “sweet spot” for maximum depth and imaging then cables can bring changes in all areas of the sound you are getting and can be the difference between “GREAT SOUND” and “OTHER WORDLY SOUND”. DO NOT spend a fortune on cables if you just listen casually. If you have a system set up for background music than any $20-$200 cables will do. It all depends on your system and how you have it set up. Sometimes this difference is small while at others times it can be quite dramatic, as big as an amplifier change or pre amp change. While I would never personally spend $20k, $30k or $50k for cables I do know 100% without a shadow of a doubt that good cables do make a difference in a quality audio HiFi system. From $20 to $20,000, I have heard cables in my audio journey of all price ranges! So yes I do know the reality of the cable game and yes CABLES DO MATTER when you have a system that is revealing enough to show you these differences. Me? I am a guy who has been lucky enough to try cables that run the gamut from low to mid to high end. Others who are into this crazy audio game spend $50k (or much more) on cables without blinking an eye (I have a friend in California who owns a full loom of Nordost Odin 2)!Ĭrazy as that is a loom that sets you back 6 figures, for cables! Even so it seems like some out there still feel like “cable is cable”. A HiFi Cables Review.Īhhh Cables! A touchy and controversial topic in the realm of audio though today I feel more are seeing the reality of what quality cables can bring to a quality system. I see a link to a publication on Sound Engineering.Cardas Clear Reflection. I would be more than happy to read your supporting information but I cannot find the link in your previous post that you refer to. Mike Hunt said:There are only one group of confused people here, and it's the audiophools. I posted a reply earlier, with a link to all the information necessary to disprove this cable nonsense, but you either can't understand it or chose to ignore it, but if you do understand it, please feel free to offer a rebuttal, explaining why and where the information is incorrect. It's not rocket science!There are only one group of confused people here, and it's the audiophools. The impedance of a cable can be quite different at different frequencies and this can clearly affect the voltage/current which arrives at the speaker terminals. Perhaps you are confusing the conductance and resistance of an electrical cable when used for DC current or that of a 50Hz mains cable with the inductance and impedance of a cable when used to conduct an AC current with frequencies from 20Hz to 20kHz. If you say your name quickly enough, says it all really! □□ Read the full review: Chord Company RumourX We’re impressed at the musically cohesive nature of the sound and the way our systems render subtle dynamic shifts with such finesse. With the Chord plumbed-in, our systems deliver a crisp, clean and dynamic presentation. While the subsequent high-end solution of Taylon proved too expensive to use in products such as the Rumour X, a more reasonably priced alternative XLPE (Cross-linked Polyethylene) was found instead. It says much for the original design that, cosmetic changes apart, this audiophile speaker cable has remained pretty much the same until now.Ĭhord’s development work with high-end ranges such as ChordMusic and Sarum T showed significant improvements could be made to the Teflon dielectric material used. The original Rumour was introduced way back in 1996, and at the time was only Chord’s second attempt at a speaker cable. Got a bigger budget? Chord's RumourX is another worthy What Hi-Fi? Award winner.
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