[Dream] audiphile nonsense

[UnderTow]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, andrei.henry at utoronto.ca wrote:

>> That's 2-conductor 8 AWG for only $2/foot.  Which is still more than
>> I would pay.
>
> but it's not weave-shielded with gold-plated connectors and covered in a
> genuine yak-hair sheath woven by 80-year-old nepalese virgins... really,
> what are you getting for your $2/ft?!?

Did you know that gold really isn't that good a conducter compared to 
other materials like say copper or even plain old steel? When you buy a 
new plug, the gold plated ones will be _worse_ than non gold-plated plugs. 
It is just that gold doesn't oxidize as fast as some other materials so 
potentialy, over a longer time, they might degrade less fast than other 
plugs.

In otherwords, it is yet another marketing scam.

> ok, so maybe $300 is still too high for good speaker cabling... but i'm
> willing to believe there is some difference between cheap radio shack
> wiring and high-quality cables.

Yeah, the customer gets ripped-off.

> Are professional recording studios wired
> with $2/ft cabling?  probably not, and I believe there is a reason.

Yeah most of them are! But also, alot of pros really don't have a clue 
about the technicalities of their profession. And who cares anyway when it 
isn't really your own money but it does impresses the gullible clients?

Mark is entirely correct here. You can get perfectly good speaker wire 
from Home Depot or whatever and that is the type of stuff studio builders 
with a clue will use!

UnderTow