Cables, Interconnects and More Cables???

Sam: RS flat braided ribbon 14AWG MegaCable is far from generic. It's pretty cool stuff and astonishingly different from bellwire or lampcord. Maybe if they branded it Radio Shacque...hmmm. Carl: that burlap makes nice grillcloth! :-)

Radio Shack has a very nice pure copper 14 AWG braided flat pair speaker wire. $20 for 50 feet. Unless you're pumping wads of current, you might want to try it. And if you like, replace it once a year and never look back. I'm guessing more than half the 'revelation' inherent in cable switches is replacing old for new. The Shack also has substantial gold plated spades at about $5 per eight pack.

Interesting Carl. But once inside you would have to decide which would get you drier, Egyptian hand woven cotton or Seacrest.

Thanks Jkingtut for the vote of confidence. How about a new thread on the sound of the upmarket stuff when you get a chance? FYI Sam, I biwired my Threshold S/350e to a pair of ProAc Tablette 2000 Signatures with the Radio Shack flat 14 gauge megacable. One month later it still sounds musical, inviting and simply wonderful. So in my case at least, spanking new shiny copper wire = happy stereo rat. And with 10 feet and four spades to spare the total cost was $29.97 + sales tax, 60/40 solder, and some heat. At least go look at the stuff. Then sneak home and hook it up :-) Allow about a week for break-in, or five minutes, whichever comes first. Seriously, if you've crippled some voracious speakers with a wimpy amp I can understand the need for better wire and assorted band-aids. But if you've chosen your components wisely, and they were designed well enough to mate effectively in the first place, the less the conductors between them are going to matter. Remember the DeLorean in Back to the Future? It ran on garbage. Now there's brilliant design in the extreme.

Sam until recently I was oogling Kimber 4TC/8TC. 30 years ago ordinary lampcord seemed to do the trick. Ten years ago I went to original Monster cable, mainly because I thought it looked cool and I'd heard thicker was better. I recently cut some of it clear through near the soldered termination. The cross section of the strands was quite tarnished. That convinced me that new wire will outperform old stuff ten times out of ten, no matter how cleverly it was designed or marketed. Adding this experience to a perusal of the Belden and HAVE catalogs suggested that $10 each spades and arcane dialectrics have little place in professional electronics. This only increases my reluctance to spend the big bucks for a lot of hoo-ha. For the time being at least, I'm completely satisfied with the sound I'm getting and simply can't imagine how it could get any better. I listen to mostly acoustic music. The tonality is right, the imaging is great, it even sounds real from the next room haha. Let's face it. Somebody's biting the bullet if RS can sell eight gold plated spades for $5 and Kimber wants $40. Who's kidding who?

Newsflash knuckleheads (you know who you are): People who like music celebrate its performance and enjoyment in any form.