Originally posted by Diki:
Kingfrog, I look forward to pictures of your rig wired up with coathangers... 
As unimportant as they all are, no doubt you have the absolute cheapest cables that money can buy. No? So there IS some kind of difference? 
I'm sure Mr. Hosa owes you a dept of gratitude, too... 
And, just to explain it for the slow and confused... Speaker cables carry high level signals. Enough to run a heater! Using a solid wire is MUCH better at the job, under most circumstances, if the gauge is sufficient to not melt However, of course, you can't coil it, pack it, easily connect it, avoid getting electrocuted by it (no shield on a coathanger).... but it'll conduct the hell out of electricity
So, how well a braided, flexible cord carries current compared to a thick solid wire to the point of indistinguishableness is pretty damn good... The bullshit 'test' you brought up never bothers to see if these 'experts' were capable of distinguishing the expensive cables to cheap ones, which is the REAL test, as few (other than Kingfrog, I guess ) are ever going to wire up their rig with coathangers.
In fact, perhaps you ought to see whether you can tell the difference between ANYTHING before you criticize anybody. I guarantee, you couldn't tell the difference between whatever cables you have now, and those that are cheaper. So what's YOUR reason for spending more than you need? I DON'T spend more than I need. I was wired up for years with HOSA snakes and they were fine except they don;t take to constant repatching and yes they have molded ends. No need for anything more then. Now I don;t use snakes anymore in the signal path because 16 lines of audio go to the PC via the XS firewire and the Tyros is patched into the XS via Quantum cables. Don't need balanced cables and I had an extra deep and isolated ground for the room I use when I had this house built. My rig is noise free and I don't use any isolating transformers.
Keyboard line levels are not an issue with any decent off the shelf cables, especially less than 6' runs. In fact neither the Motif or Tyros has balanced TRS outputs to my knowledge. Apparently there there really is no need for them in any practical application on stage and in studio. \
All this cable "hocus pocus" is focused on the gullible and those who are too "smart" for their pocketbooks. There aren't too many items that can easily command a 70% profit margin at the retail level, so why not squeeze a little more from boring old cables?
Apparently there are plenty of suckers who will buy them and "hear" the difference.
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