The HiFi Five Episode 42: Truths About Cables
Guests:
Matthew Bond -- Founder and Designer, Matthew Bond Audio; formerly Founder and Designer at Tara Labs
Galen Gareis -- Designer at Iconoclast Cables; formerly Principal Engineer at Belden Wire & Cable
Ralph Karsten -- Founder and Designer of Atma-Sphere tube and solid-state electronics
William Low -- Founder and Chief Designer of Audioquest
Eric Neff -- Reviewer for HiFi+ Magazine
This is the most candid and insightful discussion about cables every recorded!
Topics:
A $25 interconnect vs. a $250,000 one, a 10,000-to-1 price gap. Where does the extra money stop buying better sound?
Expectation bias is real. So how does someone who sells cables justify sighted listening over blind testing?
Can everything that matters sonically about a cable be measured objectively, or do the measurements miss things we can hear?
How much of the sound of a cable is attributable to the electrical characteristics of the two components the cable is connecting?
How should an audiophile go about selecting cables?
Where does diminishing returns set in on cables?
The "full loom": real engineering or just a way to sell you more cable?
What's the biggest myth audiophiles believe about cables?
