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Originally posted by rblnr:
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Well I can hear a big difference between recordings made by Chesky or AudioQuest and the standard mass market stuff.

So I would say just good enough.
Don't know how serious you're being, but I can hear a big difference too and I'd put miking and mastering techniques, lack of compression and a million other things before cables.

Having spent a ton of time in film mixing studios (some of which double as music recording studios) and knowing those guys, I don't think they'd compromise on cables if they thought it was an issue.

I totally agree about the above point on marketing.

Again, my point wasn't that there isn't an audible difference between analog cables.

Double negatives are handy sometimes.
I agree there are a lot of other factors but they do use higher quality cables than the mass market production studios. They pay closer attention to details in the recording and mastering setup as well. Most of the main stream recordings are compressed and over dubbed with so much processing its a wonder they sound any good at all. I've heard they run the final cuts through an analog tape machine just to try and get an analog sound.

Audioquest for one uses there high end cables by the way. But your right they use tube preamp stages and mixers if they use mixers in some cases. They use dejitter boxes as well. No compression in a lot of cases. There are a whole slew of different reasons but George asked if we think the studios use higher quality cables and I just stated that the better studios do. That's all. Some use the standard cables you find from Belden and others. Built to last and sound OK. Hell kids are listening to compressed music these days why spend a lot on the recording? I can't stand MP3. I walk into a wedding with a DJ that uses MP3 recordings and I can hear the differences right away. Terrible!

Ron

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