WineOfTheVeins
Audioholic
Good day everyone! Long time no talk, been super busy for a few months traveling for work and what not. I also moved, and have my own dedicated listening room now, super excited! I am in the midst of installing my home-made acoustic panels in there and making the best possible experience. My father in law came over to listen to some tunes, he really likes my setup! High compliment coming from a guy with an even higher end system than me. I toed in my speakers slightly, and have a perfect equilateral triangle for the best 3d sound. I used my Anthem ARC2 room correction software to calibrate to my new room, and boy does she sound amazing!
I was looking at it all the other day though, "What is the weakest link here?" Well, not the amp, not the speakers, hmm, must be the cables. I did my homework on cables, looked at the cheap and the pricey. Even went into a high end audio store where he tried to sell me $4k-$14k cables. You can't preach to an electrician about hocus pocus magic inside these Audioquest cables. He did however offer to loan me some high end cables for the weekend. That way, I can do a side by side comparison, and if anything, I should notice a difference since my system is very high fidelity, AND I am going from using 12/2 SOOW electrical cabl for speaker wire, and a $10 26 gauge cheapo interconnect. I will post my results whether going from 0-60 with cables makes any difference at all.
I am thinking I will order from Blue Jeans Cable. I like that Canare 4S11 cable for many reasons, and it gets good reviews; along with one of their digital coaxial cables, good shielding and 18 gauge conductor vs 26. I can justify $150 on some cables, I feel like a high end system deserves something better than barbed wire, but I think the bell curve tops off at the monoprice, BJC cables, everything past that seems snake-oily.
I did just get a nice 4 tier audio rack, I will post pictures this weekend. The top shelf is dedicated for a turntable, which I do not have yet. Do you guys have any recommendations for a good turn table?
Thanks for hearing my rambling, I'm happy to be back!
I was looking at it all the other day though, "What is the weakest link here?" Well, not the amp, not the speakers, hmm, must be the cables. I did my homework on cables, looked at the cheap and the pricey. Even went into a high end audio store where he tried to sell me $4k-$14k cables. You can't preach to an electrician about hocus pocus magic inside these Audioquest cables. He did however offer to loan me some high end cables for the weekend. That way, I can do a side by side comparison, and if anything, I should notice a difference since my system is very high fidelity, AND I am going from using 12/2 SOOW electrical cabl for speaker wire, and a $10 26 gauge cheapo interconnect. I will post my results whether going from 0-60 with cables makes any difference at all.
I am thinking I will order from Blue Jeans Cable. I like that Canare 4S11 cable for many reasons, and it gets good reviews; along with one of their digital coaxial cables, good shielding and 18 gauge conductor vs 26. I can justify $150 on some cables, I feel like a high end system deserves something better than barbed wire, but I think the bell curve tops off at the monoprice, BJC cables, everything past that seems snake-oily.
I did just get a nice 4 tier audio rack, I will post pictures this weekend. The top shelf is dedicated for a turntable, which I do not have yet. Do you guys have any recommendations for a good turn table?
Thanks for hearing my rambling, I'm happy to be back!