I have been using my DIY solid silver .9999 speaker cables. It is made up of multiple various gauges sleeved individually in there own teflon tubes.
Another Audiogonner wanted me to try a set of copper foil speaker cables which he raved about. When I did, I gotta say that I was not too impressed. It lacked bass and the upper frequencies. The music had no life.
(I must add that I also felt the same about the Silversmith Fidelium’s cables even though so many have raved about them.)
It could be that I am using tube mono blocks and this type of ribbon cables just don’t work well with this equipment. You know, impedance, inductance thing. I donna know, I just didn’t like the sound.
On a lark, I then tried both sets of the speaker cables together. That is; the solid silver and the copper foil... And I must tell you this combo worked great! The sum is better than the individual cables. Way better image solidarity and the frequency extremes are awesome. Just a pleasure to listen to.
Don’t dismiss something before you try it, you just never know.
ozzy
Another Audiogonner wanted me to try a set of copper foil speaker cables which he raved about. When I did, I gotta say that I was not too impressed. It lacked bass and the upper frequencies. The music had no life.
(I must add that I also felt the same about the Silversmith Fidelium’s cables even though so many have raved about them.)
It could be that I am using tube mono blocks and this type of ribbon cables just don’t work well with this equipment. You know, impedance, inductance thing. I donna know, I just didn’t like the sound.
On a lark, I then tried both sets of the speaker cables together. That is; the solid silver and the copper foil... And I must tell you this combo worked great! The sum is better than the individual cables. Way better image solidarity and the frequency extremes are awesome. Just a pleasure to listen to.
Don’t dismiss something before you try it, you just never know.
ozzy