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Thread ID: 82566 2007-08-31 23:13:00 Replace speakers for Hi-Fi -- advice please ! Misty (368) PC World Chat
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586716 2007-09-02 00:22:00 I belong to a Hi Fi club and I really get a laugh at some of the meetings we have when we try differant speaker cables and interconnects supplied from differant dealers from the statements some of the members make on how differant each one sounds. I come away from these meetings slightly confused as they all sound the same to me. Anyway if they do sound differant you can get the same effects by adjusting the tone controls on your amplifier.
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Trev (427)
586717 2007-09-02 01:44:00 the cables do help with the high frequency range. however most of the people that buy this sort of gear and have interest in quailty sound often have poor hearing in the high frequency range (which naturally gets worse as we age). so basicly a lot of older people simply cannot hear anydifference.

also there is the "know what your listing for" problem. most people don't know what quality is (reguardless if its music/picture/food/etc) and it takes a lot of time to learn.
tweak'e (69)
586718 2007-09-02 03:26:00 Your house mains wiring is already "OFC". All copper wire is OFC. :)

Those who can tell the difference between the sound of different cables have "golden ears", or so they say. You can be sure that there's some very dense matter between the ears.
Graham L (2)
586719 2007-09-02 09:55:00 Sometimes more expensive cables can make your system sound worse.
I shake my head when people pay thousands for a Power cable that will
"Transform your system beyond this planet":groan:
wmoore (6009)
586720 2007-09-02 21:50:00 also there is the "know what your listing for" problem. most people don't know what quality is (reguardless if its music/picture/food/etc) and it takes a lot of time to learn.
Ah..."Golden Ears" A friend of mine is one of those guys, he paid $200.00 for the "Golden Ears" cd set and hundreds of dollars to get all the bells and whistles, then he tells me that I cannot tell the diference because I hadn't done the "Golden Ears" course. Lucky me I thought.
JackStraw (6573)
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