Uncopyrightable wrote:
ok, i don't get it.. I get the bit about use cheap cables, you all say
the same, what I don't get is how companies can get away with selling
£40.00+++ pm cable, when you all reckon go cheap.

This works because the marketing for expensive cables is effective and
a lot of people that buy expensive audio equipment do not have a grasp
of the basics they were taught at school or, perhaps, they do not trust
that knowledge in the face of the marketing.

The audio publications go along with it because they earn their living
from advertisers and not the consumer. If they were to become a voice
of reason they would soon become a magazine that few advertisers using
audiophile beliefs as part of their marketing would want to use and, I
am afraid, few audiophiles would want to read because audiophiles want
to believe. Such publications would go bust or disappear into obscurity
and stop being an effective voice of reason which is why they are no
longer around.

You get the responses you do on these pages generally from old fogeys
who developed an interest in audio a few decades ago before the boom
ended and when a larger proportion of audio equipment was significantly
differentiable on performance grounds. The establishment in the late
70s and subsequent growth of the audiophile sector within audio has
largely driven out people with a technical interest but a few still
hang out in odd places like this.

If I go cheap is it better to bi-wire? most of the on-line reviews I
have read say bi-wiring is the best way to go, I am now very confuzzed.

No. Biwring using reasonable cables will not create an audible
difference to the sound impinging on your ears in normal circumstances.
Some may perceive a difference though under uncontrolled conditions
and, depending on exactly what pleasure they derive from the cables, it
might even be money well spent for them. For most it will not.