Bought some 14/2 “speaker wire” from Home Depot


So I decided to amuse myself and on a recent trip to the Home Depot I bought some 14 gauge speaker wire. 25 ft for under $11.
I have what I think is a good system and my current speaker wires are analysis plus mesh oval 9 terminated in spades. My system is noted in my profile.
I substituted in the 14/2 I picked up- each leg is about 9.5 ft. Tinned bare wire at each end. I did use 4% silver solder.
Quite listenable, though perhaps not as extended at the high end. If someone told me I had to use the Home Depot wire I’d get along just fine. Leads me to one of 4 possible conclusions- 1- my hearing stinks; 2- my fancy Analysis Plus cables aren’t anything special; 3- my system isn’t resolving enough to make a difference; 4- given sufficient gauge, cable is cable. Of course, it’s also possible that my system is so good, any wire will allow that to shine through 
Your thoughts, comments, etc appreciated 

thanks
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Showing 1 response by teo_audio

high negative feedback amplifiers tend to exacerbate cable differences.

not because high negative feedback is better, but because the negative feedback network becomes over excited and corrects transient function after the horse has left the barn.

that’s how high negative feedback works at high frequencies.

this mess of over correction leaves a trail of odd harmonic hash, which some misinterpret as signal, and thus ascribe to being cable differences.

all the transistors, the BJT types, and the MOSFET and FET types, are also non linear in their gain, so they also add odd harmonic hash.

Also, since the correction is lower in level than the main signal, the reflection of the correction -into the signal... comes about as a negative non-linear function in the complex harmonic pulse.

Since it is non linear in the gain department and the correction is at different level, then the correction can’t even trace the ’desired to be eliminated’ signal correctly. (it’s done in a different spot in the gain curve)

When we lost the linear gain of tubes and V-Fets ---- it all went to hell.

It has literally been downhill and backward, every step of the way, since then.