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I started playing with my new recording interface tonight (Focusrite Saffire
LE) for the first time to see if there's a noticable difference between my
cables. I've been skeptical of the hype concerning this cable over
another, but what I found shocked me. There is a definite difference, and
now I'm just hoping to resist putting out more money to replace some
cables tomorrow.

Neither of these are the oober-expensive cables you can get through
places like lavacable.com. One is a $40 10 ft. planet waves, the other a
$20 18 ft. Monster. Both had my tele plugged in direct.

http://www.languagepool.net/music/Cable%20test%20-
%20Planet%20Waves.mp3

http://www.languagepool.net/music/Cable%20test%20-%20Monster .mp3

A friend showed me years ago about the differences in cables I thought he was joking!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

A cable is just a big weird capacitor (and to a lessor extent a resistor too)
between hot and ground. When you think of it that way it makes perfect
sense that it would change the sound, and significantly.

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I doubted that cable would make a difference until I made my own. I bought some Starquad cable (I believe it's made by Mogami), and som Neutrik connectors and soldered my own. The difference was very noticable. Before that I was using the cheaper line of Hosa cables from the local guitar shop.

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