We Were Wrong - Exotic Cables DO Sound Better

[Audioholics]

<font color='#000080'>Audioholics has to eat some crow here, but we're not too big to admit when we're wrong. After testing nearly 20 cables for our Cable Face Off 2 article, we decided to actually listen to some of the more expensive exotic cables. What we found was AMAZING. Some of the cables touting reduced skin effect actually sounded much cleaner, with improved bass response and a wider sound stage. We were absolutely amazed to find that other exotic cables were able to improve the frequency response of even poorly rated speakers.

Amazed by this, we continued to listen and could not believe our ears! Lifting some of the cables just inches off of the ground and isolating them with stands helped to dramatically improve high frequency and transient response by decoupling the signal from the static induced flooring material.

We want to apologize to our readers for all of the measurements and scientific approaches we have taken to address this issue. It turns out, our careful measurements meant nothing and we should have let our ears determine the truth long ago.

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[Rip Van Woofer]

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But you haven't gotten the full impact unless you hook them up to a 9 watt single-ended triode tube amp!</font>

 

[zipper]

<font color='#000000'>That is GOOD!!! I bit, hook,line &amp; sinker.

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[Guest]

<font color='#000000'>WOW! &nbsp;That had me going for a little while until I actually clicked on &quot;read the full story.&quot; &nbsp;You'd think I'd be a little more leary of stories like this today. &nbsp;Very nice.

ZING!!</font>

 

[Shinerman]

<font color='#000000'>Nice!  

I especially like this sentence.

&quot;Lifting some of the cables just inches off of the ground and isolating them with stands helped to dramatically improve high frequency and transient response by decoupling the signal from the static induced flooring material.&quot;


Shinerman</font>

 

[Jim Robbins]

<font color='#000000'>Dang!  You scared the crap out of me!  I was shocked to see you turn against all that you have proved to be true...  It's like a bullet to the head!  

Ok, I am alright now......

*laugh*  

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[EdR]

<font color='#000000'>And they'd sound even better still if you use the special treatments available here.  

I reccomend the Bobcat myself.</font>

 

[randyb]

<font color='#000000'>Great Joke!!!</font>

 

[jeffsg4mac]

<font color='#000000'>LOL funny stuff, I wonder how may audio snobs you managed to tork off with that? &nbsp;

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[Guest]

<font color='#000000'>Once I read the part about lifting the cables off the ground, I could feel the April fools coming up.</font>

 

[Guest]

<font color='#000000'>Great gag! &nbsp;I was all set to write a nasty letter about your selling out the truth just to generate ad revenue, then I saw the April 1 &quot;disclaimer.&quot;

Ya got me!

Barrie</font>

 

[Guest]

<font color='#000000'>Ya had me on the first page &nbsp;

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[Dan Banquer]

<font color='#000000'>EdR: You are thoroughly uneducated in the art of audio additives. Years of hard research by the most studious and dedicated Rabbi's have found that kosher chicken fat has produced the ultimate in audio transparency. The rest they concluded is just piss!    

           d.b.</font>

 

[gene]

<font color='#000000'>Barrie;

I think our asking price for selling out is too high for even the most lucrative manufacturers &nbsp;

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[Biggus Dickus]

<font color='#000000'>That was a good one..lol</font>

 

[Guest]

<font color='#000000'>lol
get a free doberman with every cable.

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[pam]

<font color='#000000'>This time you really got my attention. &nbsp;

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[im timmy]

<font color='#A8A8A8'>First Howard Stern, now this! You'd think I would remember that it's April, good one!

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[hopjohn]

<font color='#000000'>I was swearing under my breath..you've got to be %$^&amp;* kidding me...and I was right, you were. &nbsp;

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[zumbo]

<font color='#000000'>Did you know that Bo$e uses fiber optic speaker cable with their speaker system. I love it when my friend throws that one at me while I am put through that painful sound check!

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