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Erastof, if you are interested in an objective or more science-based approach to this question, check this out: The Best Speaker Cable | Reviews by Wirecutter (nytimes.com) " THIS is exactly right. Monoprice 12g by the 100' spool is all I have used for years. For me it's waste your money or spend your money and 12g Monoprice is all you will ever need. Avoid banana plugs and use fork crimp connectors. Solder if you are concerned about connection quality and no I don't mean fancy silver solder. If you must use banana plugs then rather than use bare wire and tighten down (which always seems to magically work loose here and require checking before I hook up another set of speakers for demo or testing) use crimp fork connectors and once tight these never seem to lost their grip. |
@ghdprentice " Sorry but this is not a valuable source. This is simply a review of a bunch of cheap cables with reference to a couple of electrical characteristics. Of no value to someone serious about high quality sound reproduction. " This is precisely what gives the word audiophile a bad taste to most. Pretentious dollar slinging denial of superior quality to be had at reasonable prices. To rephrase your comment I might say.... " Sorry but this is not a valuable source. This is simply a review of a bunch of cheap cables with reference to a couple of electrical characteristics. Of no value to someone serious about aspirations of golden ear preten(d)tious high quality sound reproduction. I propose a descriptive way of referring to these types of people. Like the S after a comment means sarcasm perhaps Audiophile$ would be appropriate for those with the metric of if it did not cost a bunch it can’t possibly sound superior. At the end of the day I don't really care how much someone spends for audio. They support businesses with their money. What I find irritating is the presumption of superior knowledge and impeccable taste somehow becomes the domain only of those who feel compelled to spend lots of money to purchase their gear. This stupid attitude seems to grow in direct proportion to the $$ spent in the vast majority of cases. $500 dollar unobtanium infused fuses anyone? If they did not improve sound they could not possibly charge that much now could they. Right? |
@kozka "
there is so much one can discuss re audio....acoustics, mastering of
recordings, preamps etc....but those cables seem like a stubborn floater
that wont sink
" AMEN to that. Stubborn floater LOL! Active crossovers, DSP, real time room correction with REW and a UMIKe, taming the bad HZ that is in every driver with DSP. Your music files and Audacity. High def drivers for your PC sound card if you go that route like I do. Room treatments and measuring to see what works. Balancing gain between drivers left to right and matching the higher DB efficiency of tweeters and mids to lower efficiency woofers without the limits passive crossovers impose. My right ear does not hear as good as the left one so for my personal music enjoyment I have one setting in the Xilica with right gain up a bit and another for the same set of speakers balanced with the assumption visitors ears are better than mine. The people who obsess over wire are mostly clueless about really tuning and improving WHAT THEY HAVE to it's best potential. Or they are selling wire. The fact that there are not more serious technical articles here though is the fault of Audiogon. You can't post pictures of driver curves nor improvements you did and how you did them. Linking to other sites for your technical evidence or info, at least in my case, leads me to visit THAT site for answers both then and in the future. Audiogon is mostly for entertainment quite frankly and that it delivers in spades. I miss Geoff's space alien telepathic fix precious pebbles stuff though. |