Looking for cable recommendations

This article is straight from the PS audio site and even they like the mogami stuffšŸ˜³ for XLR use.

Hereā€™s your power cords;

https://www.psaudio.com/product-category/cables/

Check out these forums @M0N
https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?board=166.0

You buy speaker cables last depending on what part of the sound signature you want to ā€˜finalizeā€™

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Iā€™m scared of power cords but my local dealer did a pretty impressive demo with me. Power strips and all the good stuffā€¦ same main Phase on every device is important too.

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So, when i was visitingArizona-Hifi and they were demonstrating high end cables for me, the last step was to change out the speaker cables depending on what the last bits of sound signature the guys were trying to squeeze out of the speakers was. Thiis is where all the talk of ā€œairā€, depth, darkness, fatigue, etc was going on.

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You really do want to listen to them.
Iā€™m not convinced there is a general ā€œbetterā€ with cables, just ā€œdifferentā€.
I also agree with others the only real place it matters is speaker cable, and even then itā€™s heavily dependent on how picky the amp is and what the speaker load looks like to the amp.
Like anything else you listen to youā€™ll want to listen for a while, then swap back, or youā€™ll tend to just prefer the new cable because itā€™s different.

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I canā€™t imagine how much youā€™re going to spend on cables with your setup. Lol

Iā€™m not going to spend a ton, just enough lol. The stupid speaker setup is getting the special treatment here, nothing else

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Did you end up choosing speakers for the studio? I missed that if you did.

Yeah I did that a few months ago, I ended up with pmc bb6 xbd-a and barefoot micromain26 for 2ndary monitors

Those look special. Iā€™m sure they sound amazing

Well known and respected brand, reasonable prices;

https://www.bluejeanscable.com/index.htm

Kimber make solid cables :+1:

https://www.kimber.com/

I donā€™t know anything about high end cables, but those purple cables sure look cool

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Hi there,
I also dealt with the topic and decided to do it. As long as the devices have a C13 connector, it makes sense as I found out.
For example, I tried the Audioquest Nrg cable where I thought it was great. Then I bought the Audioquest Golden Gate as an Rca cable. Which is also good. But the plugs are totally shit.
Had to replace it once thanks to Amazon, so I would go to another manufacturer for the Rca cable.
However, these cables only brought a little nuance more calm. Otherwise it looked like when I changed the socket. So I installed the cheapest version of the Furutech no rhodium or something.


And that worked best. A power strip from Taga Hormony Pf 1000 still used but found that the little bit takes the dynamics out. With transformer plugs it gets a bit more difficult. Since you have little game space and then have to resort to expensive PSU power supplies. I find the Keces P3 interesting. But whether it is worth the price I can donā€™t say because itā€™s a little too much for me.
The Kimber cables for Rca connection should apparently be the best in terms of price performance ratio.

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Thanks for the suggestions guys :+1:

Right now Iā€™m looking to just get some of the ā€œbudgetā€ Kimber for interconnects, does anyone know what the differences between the models are (besides price)?

Speaker cables I plan to demo myself

IĀ“ve never heard Kimber Stuff but i can only recommand Wireworld Luna 8 and their more expensive stuff againā€¦
Mabe just pick up a ā€œcheapā€ Luna 8 to compare it to Kimber
Edit: The Wireworld Eclipse 8 ist exellent but the Oasis 8 is nice too

Hmmm, decisions decisions lol. Iā€™ve seen wireworld get a bad rap so I am slightly leaning towards Kimber. Also Kimber might be the more economical choice based on pricing

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One thing is imported,when you use Goldplated Kabel use Goldplated everywhere and not mixed it with Rhodium or Silver.
That brings nothing i have read this. Better is when use Goldkabel plated with cooper ofc and are isolated for HFit is suffisant.

So it is isolated for the Cellphone or other HF.
My Headphonecabel from the Denon or Fostex for example when give friction on the blanket it give High frequenzies to hearing.
I have made my self a new cabel with the Furutech Fw704 connector and the Viablue cabel who is isolated for this and never gives anything problems with it or with my cellphone.

So i think when use a Goldplated ofc Cabel with HF isolation it is suffisant and they gives for a respect price.

And this cabel from Kimber is good i heard https://www.amazon.de/Kimber-Timbre-Cinchkabel-verspannbaren-Steckern/dp/B0765WVN2J/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_de_DE=ƅMĆ…Å½Ć•Ć‘&keywords=Kimber+timbre+rca&qid=1579269995&sr=8-3

I donā€˜t it is HF isolated when not they give it for sure but expensiver.
Other cabel are from Cordial who is not bad.

But is your decision what you would buy finally.

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Never underestimate the capacity of a human being to believe something with all their might, armed with nothing other than faith that there is a ā€œGodā€ pick a god, any god someone is believing it, hell even willing to die for it.

Likewise there are people that swear up and down that their $6500 dollar pair of speaker cables "brings out something in the sound that makes it sound better than the $1500 dollar pair that they previously had. Theyā€™ll swear this with all the passion a human being can muster and all the faith a Southern Baptist Deacon can deliver on a Sunday morning sermon.

I am however a man or reason, a man of logic, a man of science. Thus I know that different materials having different properties will conduct electricity differently because they will inherently have a different load than other cables made of other materials or of different lengths or of different gauges. Hell if the guy making your uber expensive cables was eating a tuna fish sandwich for lunch and managed to get a little bit of oil on one of the cable ends before they were crimped, that will make it sound differently. How much difference these femto-sized variations actually make is the reason people jump from a $1500 dollar pair of cables to that $6500 dollar pair.

In the end what theyā€™re buying is status, the look, the quality, the bullshit and least of all the sound.

Yes, you can hear a difference going from 16 gauge lamp cord to a nice high purity ofc copper properly terminated, clean and free from oxidation, making as secure a connection on the terminals. Ideally these terminals are made of the same material as the copper cable and if you REALLY WANTED GOOD SPEAKER CABLES, youā€™d solder the cable from the cross over, unbroken all the way through to the board on the amplifierā€¦ forgo all connections between the two points. But we never see anyone advocating for that and Iā€™m 100% certain that would provide a far superior connection between an amp and a speaker than a $100,000 speaker cable.

After a certain point, construction, quality and other factors such as flexibility, looks etc. Youā€™re buying a placebo and nothing you can say will change that. Your hearing is not that fucking good, I promise. But you can believe all you want because itā€™s your word, your ears and your money.

Iā€™ll leave you with a hilarious example that Iā€™ve mentioned here before. Paul from PS audio goes on and on, waxing poetically about the high level of resolution he gets from his Infinity Kappa monsters in ā€œlistening room 1ā€ how he can change the cables, an RCA cable or a speaker cable and immediately tell the difference and how cables matter and blah blah blah.

In one of the vids, heā€™s standing behind said Infinity Kappa reference speakers, these things were built in the 90s with no expense spared. And every single driver in the tower is wired in the back together and guess what speaker wire they used? Yeah, you guessed it. Monster Cable. He goes on to make a shuddering sound and say ugh Monster cable, I have to do something about that one of these days. Talk about the ultimate in WTF moments in the history of audiophelia. The speakers are the most resolving blah blah blah, but theyā€™re wired with Monster cables and for 20 years heā€™s been happier than a pig in shit with them. Beyond a certain point itā€™s all snake oil, chug it down with gusto if you wish.

Carry on. :slight_smile:

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Monster cable back in the day was one of the ā€œpioneersā€ of high end cabling so it makes sense. Modern monster cable is just not great modern day

Also yeah Iā€™m not looking for status or even a sound improvement, I just want insurance (as I have said before lol). Right now I am looking at interconnects that I can get for 60 bucks a pair that look super solid, so not going to spend the big bucks lol

Also I already got the guy I bought the high end stuff to throw in ā€œhigh endā€ power cables for each component so I am good there lol

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I agree, itā€™s why I go to great lengths to make my own speaker cables, where I can control every aspect of the build and I know exactly the kind of cable that Iā€™m using, the manufacturer and the composition of it.

Iā€™m not eating a tunafish sandwich. :wink:

BTW, Iā€™d bow down to the human being that took my crossover to amp board run of unbroken speaker cable. That would be hella cool.

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