Remember the Expensive Cables Thread?? šŸ¤£

LOL! unpossible!!11!1!1

Anyone who thinks a $50 3 foot hdmi cable is any better than a $5 3 foot hdmi cable is seriously retarted. 50 feet however i can say that i have seen the difference personally.

High end audio cables are a different story tho.

A+++, will read again.

audio cabling is a shit ton less bandwidthā€¦ for one.

My dad at Stereo Advantage buy a TV

Sales Girl: You should get this Monster HDMI cable
Dad: How much is it?
Sales Girl: $1XX
Dad: Is it worth the extra money over the $20 cable my son bought online
Sales: yes definitly, ask my co-worker he just upgraded his
Co-worker: I didnā€™t really see any upgrade.
Sales Girl to Co-Worker: Thanks

nah, Iā€™m not going to go through the same argument all over again. In general, audio cable can make a difference. Let me try to make an analogy. If you up the boost .5 psi you will make a car faster (you know what I mean), but in a back to back blind test you may not be able to notice the difference. Does that mean the car is not faster, or that your lap time will not be faster?

thatā€™s about the best way I can explain better speaker cableā€¦ 90% of people donā€™t know or care what stereo imaging is or even bother to move their speakers around until they get the image right. these people wonā€™t understand or hear that a tweeter is rolling off smoother due to cables, but that doesnā€™t mean that it is not better.

:picard:

this is great. i just picked up my dry cleaning the other day, and have a bunch of coat hangers. iā€™m swapping cables out.

they did the test with people who were audio experts, not joe shmo.

you said it.

So by your own explanation, itā€™s about bragging rights? :mamoru: Oops!

(Last I checked I wasnā€™t measuring the performance of my speakers with instrumentation.)

By ā€œspeakersā€ do you mean penis and by ā€œinstrumentationā€ do you mean my penis?

video not audio i believe.

Only if by ā€œpenisā€ you mean "speakeres, and by ā€œmy penisā€ you mean ā€œinstrumentation.ā€

:lol:

Obviously the coat hangers must be shielded from the factory.

cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed ā€œaudiophilesā€ recently couldnā€™t tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers. Yeah, coat hangers.

no, itā€™s about when Iā€™m listening to some music at home I hear the voice roll off smoothly and not in a sharp digital manner.

imagine listening to a 128mp3 vs. the same thing from a CDā€¦ kind of like that.

anybody can be self proclaimed audiophile, I donā€™t even consider myself oneā€¦

but you better believe that before I drop a trackdayā€™s worth of money on upgrading cable I had better be getting some tangible value from it. Not all expensive cable is good.

all cable markups are insaneā€¦ itā€™s never worth spending the money unless you really are an enthusiast.

Iā€™m a car enthusiast because I spend time driving and want to make the experience the best I can. Iā€™m into audio because I like to listen to musicā€¦ It always makes sense to pursue the best you can get in any category of something you enjoy.

I still contend that I can show anybody the difference between good and bad cables in my living room, no experience needed, but that doesnā€™t mean youā€™ll care.

Naw theyā€™re made form organic free-range copper!

I still contend that you will fail a double blind test in my living room.

So what?

if the rest of your equipment is top shelf then Iā€™d take that challenge provided I pick the songsā€¦ but I would probably do better in a double blind on my own equipment because Iā€™m more used to it.

you put good cables on shit and you wonā€™t hear a difference.

If you listen to a 128kb mb3 vs. lossless and hear a difference then youā€™re good enough to tell cable apart.