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Originally Posted by georgia  John Klett is great!! I recommend him for any gig. He's a bit pricey but, as anal as they come.. Which is a good thing in wiring studios and commissioning consoles. 
I bought my old Neve Capricorn from Sony ( used to be Sound on Sounds ).. it lived in his garage when i picked it up, as well as, a second for spares. |
Hi Georgia... Thanks for the ... kind?... words... anal? really? I'll go w Pricey, Picky, Particular, Hardheaded, Curmudgeonly... did I say Pricey?
As to storing Capricorn - you must have me mixed up w someone else... wasn't me... I think the last time I was at your studio was pre the Cap... I forget what the console was
As to topic at hand. I hate reading threads on cable. I've written volumes on this and no one goes with the physics. Monster Cable is NOT worth the price. It's not bad cable - it's good - but when you figure the dollar cost and the considerable additional cost in time and/or labor to terminate it properly it just is not worth it.
The short answer to the cable issue is that it's much more about what amplifier (with or without transformer) is driving the cable than the cable itself. If you have a "passive preamp" i.e. a 10KΩ precision attenuator in a box made of expensive and rare woods with a special wooden knob that you paid 10K$ for... if you have one of those the source impedance out of that box at 6dB down from the top will be around 5K... if you hang ANY cable off that you will have cable effects and you'll need to select a cable that sounds better to you because you will hear differences from one cable to the next. Sometimes the cost affects how things sound... and you can spend money on high voltage glass insulators to hold the cable up off the floor and it'll sound "better" to you as well if that is where you are coming from.
Put a high quality buffer on the output and drop the output or source impedance at the output of said wooden box down to say 40 ohms or less and you'll reduce cable effects by a factor of 100 or more... in other words some gear needs better cable and other gear does not as much... so... better cable - for me I look for a good low cap cable with solid or foamed polypropylene insulation around the conductors - generally no smaller than 24 awg stranded however in large installations I spec Mogami multi-pair just because it has less bulk... in lower density apps the Gepco X-Band stuff is pretty good, easier to work with a way less dough than Monster... all of this assumes you are terminating your own wire of course
As I recall the Altec 604's at the A&R R rooms on 48th street used either Columbia Flex-Life (18 gua) or Belden 8451 (22 gua) between the amp and the speakers and it sounded good enough to do a lot of hits that sound good today so... whatever
anyway - Monster good but not worth the cash IMHO