Cables require break-in is real. Cables are just another conductors delivering digital signal, voltage signal and power, you are being a nuisance. As with audio, hearing is believing, cables do make a difference. Even used cables benefit from cable run in for 2-3 hours. Congrats if you didn't discern it, your money is safe in your bank but do yourself a favor, don't ask others to comment about the sound.
Hence, cables represent an alternative "low-cost" upgrade, relative to electronics or loudspeakers upgrade. We need cables to bend our sound just like ironworker with his iron. Probably a 15% improvement, that's a lot. Come on, a high-end system can offer 30% over its lower sibling, you generally have to spend a lot more to attain a marginal improvement.
And the cable in use is only the tip of the iceberg, what you don't see are my two big boxes of cable inventory hidden in a closet. This is the price I paid to arrive where I am today. I am a hell picky on sound. Generic cable can still do the job if you are not picky.
A cable that compliment 100% is a wishful thinking. It doesn't exist. You can dish your MBA inspired cable budgeting relative to a system, logics ride above listening, people who advocate this thought is not a listener. The same with gridding your room and place your loudspeakers on the one-third rule. Believe me, there are many like-minded out there.
Cables needed to be hooked up to determine their suitability. Having said so, cables alone are not and will not be an absolute fix, it requires room tuning and speaker positioning to realize their full benefit. This is a common mistake that leads to a headless chicken, more cable change, and if they don't really remedy the sonic shortfalls, the frustration looms up and quit. Gam over.
In my case with a no name power cable, my most expensive cable, realizes its full value in my current system. This is the most revealing power cable in my collection. My friend couldn't bear with information overload. In use, I have to relook into my other in-use cables not to lose musical rightness. Hell no to techno-sound.
Well, many things were done since my last posting. Climax after another, I'm in cloud nine as the time I'm posting now. Operation "Leave no stones unturned", I scrutinized the entire system and will not bore with details. The peak arrived after attaining 20hz to 20khz. The delay is due to the shitty and cheap loudspeaker binding posts until I figure a way to hook them up.
A paradigm shift, a passion I began 34 years ago, I now find myself no longer nitpicking, fault finding or analyzing the sound. My audiophilia nervosa is nursed and my cognitive torture is now over. My head rocks with the music reproduced from my system. Smooth, rhythmic and musical with minimum digital artifacts. I feel a sense of accomplishment and emptiness at the same time like a part of my life has lost.
This contradicts with modern audio where details rule. At some point of time, you will stop and ask yourself how much detail is enough? The State of the Art ultra high-end system strives to retrieve maximum detail and these systems are good for one hour listening. Why you ask? The colossal detail wears our brain out, all you hear is a slice of music and missing the whole picture. Are you with me?
To be continued.......
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