I appreciate this site and the advice I get here, but I'm not sure you can objectively review a product when you're getting paid to advertise it at the same time.
Actually all of the Axiom reviews we did were prior to any advertising arrangements. We chose our advertisers, not the other way around. We only allow advertisers on this site that manufacturer products we believe are of good quality and value.
As for objective cable measurements/articles, check out our
Cable Section of the site. You won't find another publication with the sophisticated
measurement tools and analysis on cables period.
Here is an old
Cable Face Off Article I did.
I am currently working on part II which will contain 12 cables from low to high price. This article will be posted in stages as it is already over 20 pages in length. I am hoping to at least post my measurements by Monday.
Many other publications will sell you the story of all the wonders of cables, how they
break in, how the termination is more important than the cable itself along with an assortment of other bad sciences. However their house of cards collapse quickly when they offer no measurable or analytic proof of their claims, and sadly most of them lack the technical credentials to know how to interpret let alone measure the cable metrics responsible for signal changes or audible influences. I recently read a speaker cable review on another audio publication where the author made all of these wonderful claims about cable break in, including a rather interesting, yet scientifically inaccurate explaination behind it, only later to admit he was a musician with no technical background. Then why try to explain something technical in nature if you don't have a grasp on it? I find this to be misleading to consumers and wish audio publications would be more responsible about not disseminating this type of misinformation.
The reality is you don't need to spend alot of money on cables to achieve good performance. Beyond a few $$$/ft for speaker cables and about $10-15/ft for interconnect and video cables you are paying solely for product appeal, cosmetics, quality of terminations (hopefully good compression plugs) and marketing. Additionally we have found many instances where ultra high expensive cables actually performed far more poorly than basic OEM cable supplied by manufacturers. Buyer beware!
BTW, just to give you an idea of how advertisers don't influence our reviews, River Cable is an advertiser on our site, yet take a look at my review of their
Flexygy 6 speaker cables which does not sugar coat their product or speak of magical wonders their cables evoke on my system. In fact, in Cable Face Off II you will find that I prefer their less expensive cable that measures better, but more on that later.
