chebby said:
DIB said:
Confirmed everything I think about highly priced cables.
I'm not a mind reader and I am not going to search the archives for everything you think about cables and nor can I remember anything you wrote on the subject.
What did the demo confirm?
Personally, I could not tell much difference between the £5.50 p/mt Silverscreen and the Sarum at 100 times the cost.
They did the test in stages. Starting with Silverscreen, then Odyssey 2, Epic, Signature then finally Sarum. As well as changing the speaker cable they were going up the I/C pecking order as well.
The system was a Sony CD transport, Naim preamp, a power amp I can't recall, and switching between an Arcam rDac and Naim DAC dependent on whether it was digital or usb cable etc. Speakers were Kudos Cardea's standmounts.
There were plenty of people in the room agreeing with the Chord salesman, lot's of nodding heads when he said that each sucessive upgrade was an improvement on the last. Maybe it's just my dodgy 55 year old ears, and I just can't appreciate the subtle differences. The sound was great each time, there just wasn't the jump in SQ that I thought there might be. I did say to the sales guy at the end that it would have been nice right at the end after working up to the Sarum range to then go straight back to the Silverscreen to hear the difference.
Everyone to their own of course.
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