Members Player99 Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 Are they worth it? I might get a few sets for the cottage. Speaker Cables:Everest 6 meter pair $19,242.50 16-conductor 9-awg CSCH Hyperlitz Perfect Surface Silver. http://www.alessandro-products.com/cables-studio.html Guitar Cable:Instrument Pro 20-foot $1,999.95 Double-balanced, solid functionally-perfect silver conductor. http://www.alessandro-products.com/cables-inst.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 You can get perfectly good cable for like $2 a metre or less, so the only way I'd see any need to spend $2k on a cable would be if I needed one a kilometre long. Disaster Area'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 do you really need the 6m speaker cable length because the Nordost ODIN speaker cable is a steal for 39000$ but it's only 3 meter, but you can get em 6 meter for about 50000$ Nordost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cryptosonic Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 Three of each, minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Three of each, minimum. Minimalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 Three of each, minimum. That's stupid. What sort of hi-fi system are you going to wire with three speaker cables? What I'm really wondering is how much you'd have to spend on separates to feel like you needed $20k cables to go with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 I'd love to show some audiophiles some of the field expedient wiring that sometimes gets used in studios to solve the problem at hand and get the job done... they'd faint. I'm all for using good quality wire, but there's a lot of snake oil out there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members christianatl Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 I gotta post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members juri Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 http://consumerist.com/2008/03/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 So much fail, it wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Firebrand Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 I'm all for using good quality wire, but there's a lot of snake oil out there too. 2nd. The day I bought and used my first "high end cable" and replaced my original average guitar cable it was like a blanket taken off my sound. I have since tried other cables that cost even more and cannot tell a difference. My favorite higher end brand that I tried and never bought was a Fender Gold. I tried the Platinum version too, but preferred the sound of the gold. Currently I run Fulltone for my longest cables. I have tried "brand M" and found their overall sound to be lacking compared to Fulltone. As far as speaker cables go, I have used 12 gauge, 14 gauge and even 16 gauge from multiple companies. On short runs I cannot tell the dolifference. I longer runs I hear more noise on thinner gauges but nothing that makes me think "wow". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Expressway to yr Skull Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 I've only ever come across 2 audiophile type guys before. Both were exceptionally dull and both were just casual music listeners. It's just another trainspotting type thing for blokes with money to spare to become obsessed about minute details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JDE Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 "Silver is the final word in conductor material, being the most musical metal known" If anyone buys these cables after reading the description, they are fucking morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted August 8, 2012 Members Share Posted August 8, 2012 I predict a new genre :Q : what kind of style you play ?A: silver metal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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