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- I'm the Red Knight, by grant of the Black
I've collected quite a mess of video cables: coax, single-wire RCA, S-Video, Component Video (three wire) RCA, and HDMI. Now I hear that HDMI 2.0 has been announced - does it ever end?
Whatever - I've long been a member of the "wire is wire" camp, and used to taunt people in threads on the subject with this line: "Wire" we getting into this again? I've used analog IC's in place of real digital cable, with good results, and taking apart one of my video rigs today, I was reminded that I had used, for lack of proper cables at the time, a digital cable and a pair of analog IC's. Shame on me, but it did work, and that's life as a scrounger.
Some time ago, I was having intermittent opens in the signal path, and traced it down to the British Cable Talk cables between the tube buffer and the amp (both British). I pondered what to replace them with and decided on an experiment with some nice Phillips Component Cable (PXT1000). I stripped off the red-coded cable, and used the blue and green for the connection. It sounded very nice. Having found a second set in my "mess o' cable," I stripped off that red cable too, and used my new set of interconnects between my preamp (yup, British) and tube buffer. The third set of red-coded cables spanned between my DAC and the preamp. This is the first time in a long time when all my interconnects matched - neat!
The sound:
better detail
better coherency
better channel separation (believe it or not)
better dynamics
better/easier recognition of individual instruments
greater naturalness
I find that the ever-so-slight ear-itating quality of my Klipsch Heresy speakers is gone, gone, GONE! They hardly sound like horns anymore!
On one track of acoustic guitar, in particular, with this cabling, I could CLEARLY hear the strings as distinct from the sound being made by the body of the guitar.
Wire is not just wire anymore. Great cable, and it was even cheap!
Whatever - I've long been a member of the "wire is wire" camp, and used to taunt people in threads on the subject with this line: "Wire" we getting into this again? I've used analog IC's in place of real digital cable, with good results, and taking apart one of my video rigs today, I was reminded that I had used, for lack of proper cables at the time, a digital cable and a pair of analog IC's. Shame on me, but it did work, and that's life as a scrounger.
Some time ago, I was having intermittent opens in the signal path, and traced it down to the British Cable Talk cables between the tube buffer and the amp (both British). I pondered what to replace them with and decided on an experiment with some nice Phillips Component Cable (PXT1000). I stripped off the red-coded cable, and used the blue and green for the connection. It sounded very nice. Having found a second set in my "mess o' cable," I stripped off that red cable too, and used my new set of interconnects between my preamp (yup, British) and tube buffer. The third set of red-coded cables spanned between my DAC and the preamp. This is the first time in a long time when all my interconnects matched - neat!
The sound:
better detail
better coherency
better channel separation (believe it or not)
better dynamics
better/easier recognition of individual instruments
greater naturalness
I find that the ever-so-slight ear-itating quality of my Klipsch Heresy speakers is gone, gone, GONE! They hardly sound like horns anymore!
On one track of acoustic guitar, in particular, with this cabling, I could CLEARLY hear the strings as distinct from the sound being made by the body of the guitar.
Wire is not just wire anymore. Great cable, and it was even cheap!
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