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In Reply to: RE: Hi-End Headphone Cables posted by Duster on September 28, 2020 at 17:29:13
In my case, I purchased after-market headphone cables because:
(a) to my ears, my head amps sound best via the balanced outputs, and
(b) to my ears, my headphones sound best via balanced connections.
YMMV.
So, I did some research on what cables other people found pleasing with the two sets of headphones that I use (HD-650, HD-800). I ended up with silver cables for one, and copper cables for the other; feel free to conjecture about which with which. :)
Such cables end up being a little spendy relative to the cost of the headphones themselves, but that is the nature of a bespoke set of cables. They were in the range of $250-300. They made a small but noticeable improvement over the OEM baseline; whether metallurgy or balanced operation is responsible is open to debate.
In any case, I no longer have any audio nervosa regarding the cabling. As the old saying goes: "A man with one watch always knows the time, a man with two watches is never sure."
Cerebrate!
Follow Ups:
I got new (8 years ago) cable for my 650's ....top (at the time) Cardas balanced. Easy switch to hear a big difference from the stock cables
I agree, my motto is Buy Once, Cry Once!
Silver for the HD 650s and copper for the HD 800s. I would say that they were Norne cables, but the silver one exceeds $300. Norne has a very nice copper cable and Trevor has a special tune for the HD 800.
That's no problem at all.
Just buy REALLY expensive headphones :)
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