Timeline for Do expensive, "premium" speaker cables make a difference?
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| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:31 | comment | added | Robusto | But ... but ... don't waste your $8,500 when for only $13,499 you can get braided HDMI cables. (It's like P. T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute.") | |
| Oct 6, 2013 at 23:44 | history | edited | Larian LeQuella | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2013 at 12:55 | comment | added | Caleb | One has to wonder. $6899 for an A/C cord? Maybe I should ask another question. | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 10:30 | comment | added | Michael Viktor Starberg | On a side-note. I remember seeing a specification for a harman/kardon amplifier back in the 90ies. Instead of numbers with 8 decimals they just wrote 'S/N: Very low. Effect: Enough.' and so forth. I thought that was hilarious. | |
| May 11, 2012 at 19:56 | comment | added | endolith | You'd be better off spending the $8500 on speakers. Those are always the weakest link in the audio chain. | |
| Jan 10, 2012 at 22:00 | vote | accept | Nick T | ||
| May 10, 2011 at 21:47 | comment | added | user2046 | @MarkRobinson: Respected by whom? Every Bose speaker I've ever heard sounded quite dreadful. It looks to me like Bose survives on marketing, not anything like technical superiority. If you want some good speaker with a name starting with "B", listen to some B&W's and see if you don't hear some difference. | |
| May 9, 2011 at 21:29 | comment | added | Job | May I have $8500? | |
| May 6, 2011 at 14:10 | comment | added | Mark Robinson | Bose are fairly respected and they ship their speakers with bell wire. In the manual they state that there's not a lot of difference. | |
| May 6, 2011 at 0:43 | answer | added | user2046 | timeline score: 53 | |
| May 5, 2011 at 21:21 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | @rmx: Make sure to read the best-buy reviews for AudioQuest HDMI cables (all of them, not just that one!), too | |
| May 5, 2011 at 20:28 | history | protected | Sklivvz | ||
| May 5, 2011 at 17:32 | comment | added | JD Isaacks | I think depending on the wattage you may have to use different gage wires. But I am really just speaking from memory from over 10 years ago when I cared about things like this. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 16:13 | comment | added | Nick T | @sharp, this deals more with the perception of sound, not just the physics of it | |
| May 5, 2011 at 15:11 | comment | added | Lagerbaer | They sure do. But only if you also buy your own power generator that somehow avoids the 60Hz (or 50Hz) background. :) | |
| May 5, 2011 at 14:16 | comment | added | HaL | Build quality is also something to be seriously considered, although you may run into diminishing cost/value returns past a certain price range. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 13:36 | comment | added | sharptooth | You could have asked the same question on Electronics SE. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 10:52 | comment | added | Nobody | The user reviews on that cable are hilarious | |
| May 5, 2011 at 7:50 | comment | added | edgerunner | Speaker cables are one of the links in your audio chain, which is only as good as its weakest link. No speaker cable will improve the signal coming out of your amplifier. The best your cables can do is deliver the (properly reproduced and amplified) signal to your speakers with minimum loss, hoping that the speakers can render them nicely without any further loss. As a rule of thumb, your cables should cost about %3-5 of what your setup costs. So those cables make sense only if your setup is around $170.000 :) | |
| May 5, 2011 at 7:09 | comment | added | Thomas O | You can bet you will notice a difference, just don't expect your friends too. (Or perhaps they will in the hope that they can sell you some multi-GHz ultra tweeters and a magic ferrite ring for $1000+?) | |
| May 5, 2011 at 3:32 | answer | added | John Lyon | timeline score: 117 | |
| May 5, 2011 at 3:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/65976860881846272 | ||
| May 5, 2011 at 2:52 | history | asked | Nick T | CC BY-SA 3.0 |