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I use BJC-LC1. If your cable sounds different than mine, it's no longer a cable. It's a filter.Doc
and I do think it's an issue, it makes the entire hobby look bad.
It's what is and what is not useless that we tend to have trouble with.
At best to me it's been a combo of "fine tuning" akin to having an equalizer - which honestly would probably be a better and cheaper investment if they weren't so out of favor. The upshot I think is that cables can help tilt somewhat your sound in one direction or another - the result hopefully being that it tilts in the direction you want and is subjectively more pleasing to you. This is why I don't believe in "better" vs "worse" - it really is system & listener dependent.
...Walter Romanyshyn said to me, while having a discussion about audiophile speaker wire ....."look at the wires in these Tannoy Monitor Golds which connect the cross/over to the driver. (a very thin wire).Now tell me what possible improvement could be heard by attaching garden hose sized speaker cable to these binding posts." I had a moment of clarity at that time. (because, I'm ashamed to say I'm guilty of wasting lots of cash on tweaks in general & wire in particular. I don't want to consider even for a second how much cash & time I wasted). (wonder what I can get for my old cables?).
Good point. I have built enough cables that I can make them sound the way I want... one benefit of doing a lot of DIY cables over the years. One time I had a clear/bright/detailed IC (made with a single run of 26g 5N silver, cotton insulated) and a warm, bassy IC (8 strands of 26g 6N copper, same cotton ins). In two different systems the results were exactly opposite, synergy was great with one and poor with the other. This can certainly be a problem for people, it is not always easy to tell which cable will work best with your system. Although, I still think I can make decent cables for any system... if I hear the system first I think I can make better cables for it. For most people I think Roger's idea to make a neutral cable that will suit most if not all systems is the way to go, especially for people that will not try and/or build many cables.
Sounds like I should talk to you about making me some cables.........My default IC is the Wireworld Oasis 6 because it is very neutral - and has good depth & width. BUT - if I can achieve the same thing w/out having to pay the $75 / $80 for 1M I think they've been costing me, I'd be happy.
In the interest of clarity I'll try to paraphrase Walter, the wire going from the binding post to the crossover & from the crossover to the voice coil is proportionally much smaller than the speaker wire connecting the amp to the speaker. Therefore is it not counterproductive to use that particular speaker wire? Counterproductive both sonically as well as financially. Hope this helps .................... fastfred