That can be hard to say. At times i do experience a higher s/n ratio w/ better cables for recording, while other times i don't see any difference. I would personally use better cables for recording b/c they do help imo.

As for speaker cables, Alex Rosner said there's no advantage between expensive and cheap.

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A good looking loudspeaker helps! If you have a good looking loudspeaker versus a lousy looking loudspeaker, and they both sound identical, I promise you that you will choose the good looking one. I found speaker wire cable, that costs 60 dollars per foot. They sell it so expensive, because it looks so pretty. But I promise you, if I take a lamp cord, that cost 20 cents per foot, you would not hear a difference.«

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What about like RCA cables you could find at radio shack vs higher quality monster cable

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if you are running an un-balanced system, (RCA is an example of un-balanced connections), then the shorter the cable the better. If you run long un-balanced cables, you will get noise. (you may even pick up radio wave noise if the cables are long enough...)

If you run a balanced system, the length of the cable is not that important.

For recording, my opinion is to go balanced.

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so true. As for radioshack vs monster, if your only gonna need a short distance like 3-6ft, than radioshack should be fine. But for long distance like 15+ft i would go for the better of the two. BTW, i do use a couple of radioshack "gold series" cables for traktor and my extigy, and they do get the job done fine. As for recording, i use monster "interlink 200 rca-rca" which are called "balanced" but really are not balanced. They work pretty well for rejecting rf noise.

If in the future you get a pc soundcard for recording, be sure it has balanced inputs like xlr or trs, instead of rca or the more common 1/8" stereo mini jack.

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AH ic thanks for the info. DOes the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 support these inputs?

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The m-audio audiophile 24/96 doesn't support balanced inputs. Still, it's a very clean sounding rca inputs and way better than any soundblaster sound card for recording.

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Yeah, I would have to say that the soundcard is more important than the cabling when recording to a PC. A Soundblaster (yes, even the audigy) just will not really cut it for pro-sounding recording. You need something decent like the M-Audio, or the Hoontech ST Audio DSP24V which is much cheaper than the M-Audio but uses the same chipset.

also for ~$50 more than the audiophile, you can get the m-audio delta 44. That support balanced TRS inputs.

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