Topic: Your opinion -- how much do cables matter?

[Ed.]

i work an 8hr day, then a 13hr day, then a 12hr day, then an 7hr day, then 3 days off...every week.  its nice, but is real tiring at the end of the stretch, but getting friday, sat, sunday off each week is worth it.

[nic]

heres hoping the X Streams are great cables...hopefully someone is accepting my bid for a pair of 15'ers!
(fingers crossed)

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

I'm happy to make cables for anyone, I lik it - it is fun...  Although I think you should learn how to do it yourself...

Buy from Markertek, mail me the pieces and in a few days I'll return your cables to you...  All you need to do is B&P style the cables, send along a return mailer...

And some SHNs of any show you have taped woul dbe nice too...

PM me if you want me to build some cables for you!  I'm getting ready to make 90>90 Canare 1' adapter cables for my 25' straight Canare cable...  If I ever need a 90 end, just snap one of these puppies on there!

Terry

[seethreepo]

the amount a person thinks cables make a difference is directly related to how much said person has spent on cables.  

seriously though ... cables make a diference  to a point  but your playback system might not readily reflect  the difference between $100 cables and $1000 cables

I personally would put the money elsewhere  but YMMV

on a side note   on a dvd forum I frequent some guy built a cable and included a rusty nail in the chain (seriously!!)  9\ 10 audio philes couldnt tell the difference between the cable with the nail and a store bought monster cable.

[jpschust]

I'm happy to make cables for anyone, I lik it - it is fun...  Although I think you should learn how to do it yourself...

Buy from Markertek, mail me the pieces and in a few days I'll return your cables to you...  All you need to do is B&P style the cables, send along a return mailer...

And some SHNs of any show you have taped woul dbe nice too...

PM me if you want me to build some cables for you!  I'm getting ready to make 90>90 Canare 1' adapter cables for my 25' straight Canare cable...  If I ever need a 90 end, just snap one of these puppies on there!

Terry

Terry, if you find building cables so fun, I've got about 8 8channel snakes I need built :-P  Do 128 connectors (8 snakes of 8 channels each, two connectors on each end) then lemme know how fun it is :-P

[BCostigan]

I think cables fall into the category of "deminishing returns".     The ratio of money spent to bettering the sound is low compared to other gear.


If you go from a $300 pre to a $1500 pre you'll probably hear much more of a differance than you will between a $100 pair of cables and a $500 pair.


To me "worth it" depends on how much disposable income you have for taping.  If I had the money for a pair of  AM Excalibur IIs I'd be happy to have them in my bag!!

[creekfreak]

I don't think cables play that much of a role in live PA recording. Too noisy as it is to notice what cables can offer to you. Real quiet ambient type recording where line noise can be easily heard, then maybe high end cables are going to do the trick....but not in the environments we tape in. Just IMO, shit I am still pissed I had to spend $500 on actives for the schoeps...but I did it for the smaller foot priint, not any gains in sound from better cables.

[scb]

>>on a side note  on a dvd forum I frequent some guy built a cable and included a rusty nail in the chain (seriously!!)  9\ 10 audio philes couldnt tell the difference between the cable with the nail and a store bought monster cable.
<<

that just proves that monster cables suck!  

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

Terry, if you find building cables so fun, I've got about 8 8channel snakes I need built :-P  Do 128 connectors (8 snakes of 8 channels each, two connectors on each end) then lemme know how fun it is :-P

Hahaha!  Yeah, cables are fun...  What you are proposing is not a cable, but a headache!!!

Terry

[mhibbs]

I've got a great set of 15ft Zaollas I'm looking to sell if anyone is interested (I moved to actives w/ my Schoeps).  FWIW, I agree that I would upgrade components before cables, but a nice set of cables definitely makes a difference, especially in the tightness of the low end.


mitch

[nickgregory]

I recently acquired a set of audio magics and a set of zaollas that are on the way to me.  I am looking forward to see what the impact is to the rig...I am also going to run some comps against both and see what I prefer...

[scb]

x streams?  i'm not sold on the x streams yet, but from the excalibur II up i think the cables are sweeet.  just gotta find that sweet deal

(i have nothing against x streams, i just haven't ever compared them to anything else like i have the excaliburs, spellcaster and sorcerers)

interested to hear your thoughts

[nickgregory]

So I dont think that these are the xstreams.  The guy that sold them told me that

"These are the first ones Audio Magic came out with. They have the clear cover over the silver braided cable. The ones that are really stiff"

So I have not followed Audio Magic much, but got a good deal on this set of 25 foot cables...

I will be interested to see the results of the tests between these and the zaolla's though...

[nickgregory]

so I did some researching and the Audio Magic cables that I bought (referenced above) are apparently the Sceptor II's, which if I am reading correctly were out before the X-streams...so we shall see how they stack up against the Zaolla's

[F.O.Bean]

i have the older jackets on the mic cables too, purchased in 99, they arent as flexible as more recent AM's x-streamz im told

remember phil lucks trying out some white AM's awhile back, hmmmmm  ,wonder what happened to those,PAGING PHIL