surr3a1 wrote:Johannes AU wrote:I use a 'cheap' USB cable and interconnects with the RME since day 1.
After I updated the Dali Spektor 1 to Oberon 1, it sounds better.
After I updated the Yamaha WXA-50 to a Teac, it sounds better.
All interconnects remain the same, but I am 7 months older from day 1 of RME plus some possible hearing loss in pass 7 months.
So let me try to understand correctly, you changed amps and speakers but you've kept the same cables all the time... so how do you have an opinion on the topic when you've never ever tested anything related to cables?
If you don't hear a difference - you are blessed with keeping your money for other use and I envy you for that(just what ramses said).
For me... I can have my Adi sounding different in endless ways which cannot be measured in just money!
Onto more tangible question: If I have set treble gain +2dB and then set Parametric EQ of +2dB to the 6.5kHz band, will I have +4dB total?
KaiS answered your last paragrapgh, so I skipped it.
I tell my experience doesn't mean I never tested high end cables, the fact is I do not own one.
After I got the RME dac, my friends of the HiFi circle said their dac(s) are good, very good, some R2R thousands dollar dac, some sigma delta quad chip dac. They want to compare, also decodes a CD transport. So I brought my RME with the PSU and original cables (with a cheap RCA interconnect) and an external disc drive to their place and do some music listening.
We do not intentionally do A/B test or blind listening, just random connection to their equipment. The result is RME sounds best, they admit it and shocked. While after several connections with equipment, no one remember which is which, that said they cannot hear any difference, their system cost around half million Hong Kong dollars. The external disc drive cost HK$300 can play a CD via computer to the RME sounds the same as their HK$ 120,000 CD transport with very beautiful cabinet, cables and connectors.
I did mentioned in another post, I cannot find it at the moment. When I switch the polarity at the RME, they said it is more transparent and praise it, when I told them the truth, their faces turn red.
I am an amateur only, not a pro, but I did own a lot of so-called HiFi equipemt, mainly SONY, I record vinyl tracks into cassette tapes, I use SONY TC-K777ES, TC-D5M, also SONY OFC cables. I understand the basics, but nowadays digital age makes it more complicated, but the basics remains intact and useful, it is all physics.
If you think someone using cheap interconnects has no rights to comment, I can keep myself silent in those topics. We speak out is not to downsizing anyone, the aim is to let them understand not to spend money on things that makes no improvement, rather spend money on music, for e.g. CD or other music media. Many members here are willing to help others even with language barrier, they earn nothing.
Could it be your way of thinking I never tried a cable, makes you think a particular type of cable is better, I have no conclusion, may be it is the mindset of people that makes cable manufacturer earns a fortune. (You try it and you will like it, only RME and BMW boxer engine motorcycle works for me)
Recently a well known Youtuber of Hong Kong posted a photograph of Triton Fethead Phantom and ask his audience what is it (likely to show off his expertise knowledge?). One answered +48V Phantom inline amp for condenser microphone. He then replied it is for dyanamic microphone ... another gentleman pointed out the first answer is correct, he then make circles state that he use it in his studio at his dynamic microphones for VO ... blah blah blah... that gentleman pointed out the first answer is correct keep state the fact in the replies, at the end the Youtuber admits he got the wrong model ... but keep making excuses and said few dB lower but it still works...
This forum is a very nice place for RME users to discuss technical problems they encountered, answers from other members are highly technical with very fine details and explanations, enjoy the forum and keep this going.
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