I've been spending the weekend reorganizing my bedroom and getting rid of things I don't need, blah blah who cares. I moved my desk and thus all my audio equipment, and had to rewire it. In the chaos I managed to find a nicer 3.5mm TRS to RCA than what was currently in my chain, and decided to replace the one in my audio chain with it. Holy shit, what? This sounds fantastic. Why does this sound different?? Did the Geek Out get set to the wrong filter? Nope. What the shit.So I got out my multimeter, and tested both cables. The new one stabilized at exactly 0.3 ohms on left, right, and ground. The old one stabilized at 0.6 ohms on left and right, and ranged from 4.2 ohms and 10.1 ohms on the ground channel. The ground channel never stablized -- 4.2 ohms was the minimum it ever hit -- and 90% of the time I didn't get a reading at all.I've been using this fucking cable since I got the GO and Gustard, almost 4 months ago. So yeah, fuck cables.
Did it sound like it was cutting out? In theory a 10Ohm line-out cable shouldn't make a difference.
No you aren't full of shit. I wish it were as simple as they all sound the same. I also wish spending more money guaranteed performance. Oh well. There's people that sell cheap and expensive stuff that equally could give a shit about you cuz they gotcha already.
"Have you tried it with different cables?" should be the audio equivalent of "have you tried turning it on and off again?"You would not believe the number of amps and DACs we've had returned for service (and found nothing wrong with them), *before* we learned to ask, pointedly and repeatedly, if other cables and adapters have been tried. Nobody wants to believe their cables are bad. It's almost a mania.
