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08-Jul-2015, 23:42
(This post was last modified: 09-Jul-2015, 00:01 by Manoet.)
That may be a little strong. I just see a couple people that are excited an entity like Belden might be willing to pick up moderate to high-end audio cabling and run with it. If true it could be the biggest boon in audio cable design & innovation perhaps ever! Belden is on track to top $3B in global sales this year! Far as I know, no one in the audio cabling industry will do more than a percentage point or two of that, if that. If Belden jumps on board they're positioned to be an immediate contender and leader within a year or two if they stick with it. No one else has the engineering experience, design savvy and diagnostic equipment or resources to run head-to-head with them. They could easily represent the biggest advance to our specific cabling interests we've ever seen! Even if no one here were ever to purchase a Belden branded product its not rocket science to see the potential of having them on board and the promise they offer directly to addressing the advancement of the audiophile's across-the-board cable needs. While I have no need for any cabling today there's no potentially better news for audio cabling that I could imagine. Personally I'm VERY excited that they're 'dabbling' at high-end audio and I wish em all the luck in the world. We personally and all of AVdom at large will benefit if they're successful.
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"Living in the same area" is actually much different from being friends with him and helps attribute your zest with something other than advertisement!
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It might be a very good loudspeaker cable but even the low purity copper version is not cheap. Made by Belden is in my opinion neither positive nor negative but it is in the price range of many other good or not so good cables. Likely it will be not difficult to find some which are better and many which are worse.
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09-Jul-2015, 03:46
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"Devialet might be a very good product but even the 120 is not cheap." Statements like that regarding cheap pricing don't cut much ice at a Devialet forum! Nor do I believe "cheap" should be the deciding factor in anyone's audio component selection. I don't see Belden as any kind of trend-setter in either the upper or lower echelon of cable pricing so much as firmly entrenched in the middle price-wise. From a pure jumping-off point the safest place to launch a new product... neither highest or lowest. Until we start to hear feedback on their line of cabling products I don't think anyone's qualified or capable of making any kind of value statement as it would be pure conjecture. Personally I'll be taking a very interested wait-n-see approach. One things for sure... this is certainly no fly-by-night snake oil operation!!
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09-Jul-2015, 12:12
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I'm really not comfortable with this thread. Too much of a sales pitch for my liking, too much talk about prices and value for money and not enough about how they actually sound compared to other brands of cable.
I don't mind people talking about products that they love and own (and we especially love shootouts on here!) but price lists and contact details of local dealers and manufacturers is just a step too far. Yellow card...
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09-Jul-2015, 12:22
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I agree.
On the Hanson site I could not find Belden. I could find 4 other cable brands.
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I hope Belden can produce some cables of audiophile SQ but of reasonable pricing. Thanks for the member(s) who tell us this.