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Re: Axiom video cables.
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$1500/foot. Couldn't ya just go to a jewlery store and buy a bunch of silver chain, link them together, cover them with teflon, stick an RCA on the end and come out a lot cheaper?


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Re: Axiom video cables.
#20050 09/30/03 08:52 PM
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Well... My flute, all-silver and a little over 2' long, costed about $3000 25 years ago (today, the same model sells for ~$8000 new). So, $1500/foot is fairly reasonable... (NOT!)

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#20051 09/30/03 09:09 PM
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Sushi,

Did you audition the all-copper flute as well?

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#20052 09/30/03 09:20 PM
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Peter, I'm also a former woodwind player; the silver ones have much "brighter" highs, the copper ones are "warmer".

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#20053 09/30/03 09:24 PM
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That makes a lot of sense, JohnK.

And I suppose prototypes have been made using aluminum, but they were found to sound "harsh" and "metallic."

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#20054 09/30/03 09:26 PM
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I'm still pulling for gold. Or platinum. That's it! Platinum/titanium/palladium cables. I bet they'd sound great!


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#20055 09/30/03 09:58 PM
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OK...I'm going to type something that I was going to keep for myself...but I figure the Axiom board and this discussion is a good place to disclose something that I experienced.

A couple of weeks ago someone came over to audition my Ascends. He wanted to bring his own integrated amp and CD player....interconnects and speaker wire.

Plugged everything in and we listened. Sounded great, he loved the CMT-340s.

I went into the other room to do something. The music stopped, I just figured he was changing CDs. I came back out and the same song was playing again, but it sounded different. I asked him what he did. And he said changed the interconnects. I told him it sounded more forward, and he said he thought so too....and that is the characteristic these interconnects had on the sound.....they were silver coated.

Now, I know some of you will question this, but I swear to you, I heard the difference and had no idea of the cable change until after the fact.

-curtis

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#20056 09/30/03 10:38 PM
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In reply to:

Peter, I'm also a former woodwind player; the silver ones have much "brighter" highs, the copper ones are "warmer".



And for the ultimate warm tone, there are wooden flutes available.

But I'm not sure how a wooden speaker cable would sound, if it sounds at all...

Re: Axiom video cables.
#20057 09/30/03 10:42 PM
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Just so we're clear, are you talking about analog interconnects between the CD player and the preamp? Also, what kind/quality of interconnects were you using before?

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#20058 09/30/03 10:46 PM
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I believe you may be on to something, sushi. Wood is not a good conductor, but if you create a cable out of long strands of wood fiber and soak that in a super-saturated NaCl solution, I think it could work.

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