Mogami cable - professional cable

good day everyone

Just curious does anyone try or use Mogami cable

for professional musician this cable is supposed to be good for 60 feet without losing anything?

Very popular in Japan, for his low capacitance

Anyone use it? Any comment on it?

Thanks for helping

Mogami musician review

When money was tight and buying a new set of cables meant saving money, I tried various Mogami interconnect cables (RCA and XLR) at the advice of budget-minded audio friends. I don’t remember the model numbers. Mogami hasn’t really changed their cable catalog much over the years, so it’s probably similar today as it was then. All the ones I tried were on par with Gotham, Canare, Grimm TPR, and other pro-line budget cables I’ve heard. Mogami Gold was the only Mogami that stood out above this crowd. If money is tight, Mogami and their Mogami Gold are a good buy. For revealing systems, Mogami, like its other pro cable competitors, is going to lack in depth, soundstage, detail, and realism. You’d think pro studios would care about these things, but generally they don’t. Most studios prioritize reliability along with strong, but flexible shielding. Mixing and mastering fixes the rest.

I’ve read many threads in other forums about how pro studio cables are better than more expensive audiophile brand cables. They are not. Not even close in most cases.

Mogami cables and geometries are in their catalog:

A high end cable in a pro studio is probably not going to last long. Same goes with cymbals. :rofl:

I have a set of Mogami Gold 2534 that I don’t use. I bought them because I needed a temporary solution while looking for new cables. I also used them in a setup 20 years ago before replacing them then. Recording studios and audiophile playback systems are completely different settings with different priorities.

Basically, compared to something like Audioquest Water (or even King Cobra), the Mogami’s are flat, not dynamic, restricted, lifeless, etc. There’s really nothing about them that makes them worthwhile. They just don’t sound very good in an audiophile setting, and you can get way better sound for a little more money.

Unless you just need a cheap set of cables for $50 to move the signal, look elsewhere.

And yet ā€œpro cablesā€ capture all of the nuances in timbre, dynamics, timing, separation, air, etc. audiophiles desperately seek to reproduce.

nope

it is autotune, that does that after using it three time in a row for the same recording

Just kidding!

:wink:

back then when someone don’t have a voice you add chorus and echo it was the sort of camouflage And then you put the wall of sound from I forgot his name

we don’t use cheap These days,

We say an affordable solution! :wink:

With the cost of living rise sky high in Canada I don’t have the choice to be cheap in my purchasing! hahaha!

I’ve been in many studios, listening to playback thru the monitors and I’ve always heard very detailed, useful but sterile sound. Everything in the studio is a purposeful tool in my experience.

wall of sound: Phil Spector

If sterile, why do we so desperately want to capture this sterile sound as ā€œintendedā€ as it comes from the studio?

All that audiophiles adore is in the recording as it is released. Yet we continually claim pro audio is inadequate, the ADC, cables, amps are meh, etc.

The irony is heavy.

Snake oil and fairy dust fix all ills, real and imaginary!

Sure, but that doesn’t mean studio cables are the best choice for home playback. They just don’t sound as good as a basic set of $150-$250 used Audioquests, let alone more expensive stuff.

used audioquest most of the time if you go on canuckaudiomart or us mart Are in fact fake cable sold on AliExpress!

Branding sold/soul my man

when the price is cheap there’s no need to make fake cause there’s no room to make money!

AQ was just an example of a readily available cable that sounds better, buy whatever makes you happy

makes you happy!

:wink:

So why does studio cable capture all the nuances, while only expensive specialty cables can reveal these subtleties at home?

I am editing a choral recording I made last Sunday using Mogami and Belden cables (like many of us, I assemble my own). Plenty of nuance, far from sterile, wonderful room sound. The client will be delighted.

As I have previously opined, our recording technology greatly exceeds our ability to reproduce what is in the recording.

This never resonated with me. The studio sound that I’ve experienced is not what I like to listen to at home. One is not better than the other. It’s just personal preference.

Phil Spector

Many state they want their system to sound like the engineers, producer, and artist ā€œintendedā€. Whatever this means.

When you refer to studio sound do you mean the feed from a mic(s)? A mix before mastering?