I’m getting the bass quality that he is alleging, with standard $70 a pair cables.

I’m sure his cables make a difference. Whether it’s an improvement, and whether it’s audible, is another story.

https://gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger-363154

Do expensive audio cables really sound better? Black Rhodium founder Graham Nalty says yes, and claims science backs him up.

In a recent interview at the Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2025, Nalty explained how physical properties make premium cables perform better. The audio veteran insists these differences are measurable, not just marketing tricks.

“We found, quite amazingly, that the more expensive it was to buy, the better it sounded,” he shared.

Here’s one cable maker’s scientific defense against accusations of audio snake oil: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/02/cable-founder-physics-expensive-cables-audio-quality/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

The list spans over 50 years of heavy music, from a record that was tracked in a single day to concept albums sequenced like political thrillers.

What’s surprising isn’t just the range of sounds, but how many of these albums reward the same close listening you’d give a film score or a jazz record. The connections across genres get strange fast.

Full list: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/05/metal-albums-heavy-music-beautiful-precise-addictive/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

Their first product together is a $105,000 tower system with 1,000 watts per speaker and a room correction platform that optimizes crossover filters, driver timing, and EQ to your listening space.

On specs alone, it competes with names like Wilson Audio and Magico.

But the real story is how the system is built, because it rejects a design principle that the luxury hi-fi world has defended for decades, and the backlash has already started.

Full story: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/05/gps-company-speaker-breaks-rule-luxury-brands/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

Now a neuroscience professor has turned that same testing logic on modern DAC marketing, using downloadable recordings from real products with selectable chip modes.

His measurements didn’t land where the marketing department needed them to.

Full story: https://www.headphonesty.com/2026/05/modern-dacs-failing-null-test-humiliated-amps/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

Here’s what he found out and how to fix it: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/07/chasing-perfect-windows-sound-hidden-software-sabotaging/?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=caption

In this video I’ll show you a critical pitfall in resistors and very simple ways to avoid it.

Thanks to viewer comments, I found out some more information.

I’m talking about thermal modulation, the resistor element having another temperature in the peaks and valleys compared to at the zero crossing. This effect is negligible at 1kHz for power resistors. The thermal mass (which I did not take into account when making this video) means the resistive element stays at a constant temperature.

For smaller SMD resistors, this is different. They have a low enough thermal mass to cause problems in the 5-200Hz range. The effect drops of to 0 between 1kHz and 5kHz. You can find the information in this paper by Audio Precision. This company designs the best distortion measurement equipment in the world so they face this problem daily which means I trust them to be a very reliable source.

At 1kHz in the SMD demonstrations, another effect is dominating distortion: Voltage dependent resistance. This effect is really bad in thick film resistors and almost non-existent in thin film resistors (or better ones) as my real-life measurements show.

Designing for Ultra-Low THD+N
https://www.ap.com/fileadmin-ap/technical-library/Designing_for_Ultra-Low_THD_N.pdf