There I was told that the construction of the inner conductor is symmetrical. Something else I would not have expected.
The issue could be clarified why the shield is silver, although specified as copper. This is silver-plated.
The color separation is certainly not well chosen. One can pluck apart the cable but, you have two and a confusion is no longer possible. Since the two cables are medium thick, you can also follow this good or to make many a proprietary tag.
The plug flutschen very supple and very smooth, which hopefully does not mean that they are soon worn out.
The shield is double, even aluminum foil and again a very dense copper braid, which was allegedly silver.
The inner conductor is made of OFC copper, ie oxygen free.
The cable is very flexible and the connectors are hard gold plated.
It brings everything with what you would expect from a high-quality cable, even though I myself have a finger thick, self-made two-piece pin cable, to the qualities of this Ice Blue cable is not expected to drankommt :-) not Fortunately, well priced, for the DIY-RCA cable was significantly more expensive and comes from a high-end forged.
Why not buy one of these inexpensive Asian imports ??? As you can quickly buy a pig in a poke, because you do not really see what is included. Here you would have to first open the plug and needed a laboratory to ensure the quality of the copper to analyze. Perhaps cheap companies even copper-plated aluminum cable used. Who knows it ???
Why is a proper screening important?
It has happened already with an inadequately shielded antenna cable that the cordless telephone has paralyzed the TV reception. Or the older among us there know all: Previously you could talk on the phone, other parties hear. Here the cable lay over long distances side by side. Despite sophisticated twist it came to inductive transmissions.
Why is gold plating important?
Here I have personally experienced that occurred at once disturbances if the connectors were not moved for many years, since the material corrodes. You have to solve the connection (plug) with white spirit and sanding of the contacts the connection restore properly. With a hard gold plating it occurs not so fast. In the transmission technology also massive gold contacts were used as big as pinheads in relays.
Why OFC Kuper?
In one experiment with speaker cables made of cheap copper, we have a left 2 feet longer. Lo and behold, the box, which was hanging on the shorter cable was minimally louder. Of course we have the cable replaced and sometimes the whole thing tasted blind. There should be no illusion indeed. Then we OFC copper cable have used and the volume was identical, even though we had used here significantly longer cable than the other. The conductivity may be at OFC significantly better.
Many now argue that there is no difference in sound, and this is something "esotherisches" was. Well, then it would be perfectly absurd not to use the cheap Beipackkabel. Of course, not everyone has very good and trained ear. Also to highly compressed music (MP3) cause the differences are smaller.
With very good shots and very good audio components but you can hear the difference in part more or less clearly with appropriate own suitability as a very extensive test with my self-made RCA cables showed that time. Since I do not believe in fairy tales, I could hardly imagine that there is a difference is audible. Nevertheless, I have someone else asked to swap the cable and not to tell me, which is currently connected. Hit rate change frequently was 100%. In my DAT reference unit the difference clearly audible (for me) was (of course BLIND tested). In a simpler CD player I could not get to hear the better cable. Amplifier and speakers were in the luxury class. So far away from high-end devices. DAT was for the high-end range.
The heights were clearly not as sharp and the bass dry, what the better cable was clearly for me. Of course, not many people will have so well trainnierte ears and probably not hear anything. Because it makes then also nothing if the DA-converter from Cirrus or Wolfson is :-))) or whether the WMA or MP3 format is.
Heard a decent price appropriate cable to a proper facility. A cable, which is more expensive than the amplifier, pearls would naturally cast before Sä.e. The speakers should cost twice by the amplifier, and this should be price reasonable, so that all components integrated can bring their full power and no money is wasted unnecessarily.
This cable extends MMN. for Integrated Amplifier to thousand dollars and in accordance with high quality additional components. For higher-quality equipment, I would tend to that of the inner conductor made of silver or silver is.
Whether all this also offer this great deal on offer cheap cable, who knows it all: thick silver plated copper braid (Specification Oehlbach Hotline), OFC inner conductor, 24k gold plating, symmetrical structure (indication Oehlbach Hotline). double shielding.
I've seen in movies that assemble in Asia unskilled children by knife cheap cable. Of course I can also with a knife, but with appropriate tools is an easier and more accurate. Whether the cables are properly processed, regardless of whether with knife or special tool, one sees then only when you open the plug, if it is at all possible.
When unbelievably low Ice Blue cable of Oehlbach I think so more that everything is properly processed and "hope" that the specification with the silver-plated copper is also correct. For low-cost carriers, you pay maybe a little less, but what you then ??? Child labor in India with 7 day week and 13 hour workday? Cheap copper or copper-plated aluminum worst? Easiest shield?
The alternative is to seek a high-end forged, buy items and myself finishing treatment. This allows up to 70% of the cost saving.
Conclusion: The Oehlbach cable brings everything a high-quality cable should have, and this at a price that many a low-cost supplier gets dropped jaw !!!
