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In Reply to: I do, regularly. posted by Bill Fitzmaurice on July 13, 2004 at 13:02:35:
...aren't cheap, because they have either careful design and moderate production costs, or careful design with high costs. Cost tradeoffs are a fact of life in the manufacture of cables as well as in other components. For example, you can drop the noise in every mic preamp I've seen, just by using better caps and resistors. Imagine what 200 $10 resistors do to production costs for a stereo mic pre. I have worked with some of the best cable designers in the business. Here's a case in point. The company I formerly worked for built two line-level consumer preamps. One cost $10k and the other was $16k (same design, better parts). Replacing the stock, high-quality power cable (no garbage IEC plugs, but Amphenol screw-on connectors) with a prototype Shunyata cable, equivalent to about a $2000 model made today, made the cheaper pre destroy the pricier one. I agree with you that many, if not most, very pricey cables are either bad deals, inadequate designs, and or poor matches for many systems. I believe the same holds true, but to a much, much lesser degree, for other components. I'm sorry for the late reply. Regards, Sam
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Follow Ups
- The best often use the best. Great cables... - Sam Lord 05:55:19 07/26/04 (4)
- Great cables - Bob Lee (QSC) 08:48:59 07/30/04 (3)
- I don't condemn what I haven't heard. - Sam Lord 13:09:35 07/30/04 (2)
- Re: I don't condemn wire that does what it's supposed to do - Bob Lee (QSC) 11:55:42 08/02/04 (1)
- Good point, I follow (nt). - Sam Lord 18:01:31 08/02/04 (0)
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