How (And Why) to Avoid Premium Audio Cables [Audio]

Like expensive video cables, premium audio wiring is one of consumer electronics\’ great placebos. Do it is advisable be a sucker? After all not. CNET\’s Steve Guttenberg provides some illuminating advice on buying and organising cables on the cheap.

I always make fun of a chum of mine who buys expensive plain white socks, because unless you’ve got some kind of mutant feet imbued with millions of extra nerve endings, one can not be capable of tell the adaptation from their bargain store equivalent. An identical goes for sound cables.

Guttenberg points out that, beside \” audiophile\” equipment not appealing to the way in which most of us consume anyway (jogging, working, drowning out the complaining of a friend), we probably don\’t have a pleasant enough setup to potentially advantage of \” better\” cables.

So in place of audiophile gold plated audio cables jam-packed with diamonds and elephant bone marrow, where should the levelheaded consumer head instead? Guttenberg suggests MonoPrice, where you may pick up a 100 foot roll of 18 gauge wire for $17.34. You\’ll should add your personal plugs whenever you don\’t feel like breaking out the wire stripper, during which case Guttenberg recommends Blue Jeans Cable\’s \” preterminated\” cables.

Guttenberg insists that ultimately the audiophile quality difference does exist for those brave enough to wreck the bank while wiring their sound system, but for us with the eardrums of an insignificant mortal, this should suffice. [CNET]
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