Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience?

@secretguy 

your system may not be resolving enough... 😂

@secretguy

i found found that cables do matter, but they seem to impact the sound in inverse proportion to the size of the signal they transmit... so most cable sensitive are phono interconnects, then analog or digital interconnects, then speakers cables least (assuming sufficient gauge and basic cable hygiene of course) ... just sharing my personal experience

but if you think about basic physics and notions of resistance, reactance, it does make sense

i remember quite a few years back, at a high end audio trade show, over a casual lunch break with one lew johnson and jeff fischel of c-j... talking about lotta things, the subject of mega buck cables came up, lew made a point... in the high end audio business many of the true greats, bill j of arc, carl marchisotto of alon, stew tyler of proac, dennis had of cary and so on... no one makes so much money to live in mansions, have sports car collections, etc etc

the few, rare exceptions seen have always been folks who started cable businesses, noel lee, jim aud, joe reynolds and so on... just some food for thought...

my 2 cents (consistent with some comments already made...)

lots of decent copper stranded cable out there, branded or unbranded, just get right gauge, terminate well, make tight connections - solid core copper maybe a touch more lively but once again not a difference worth chasing for most

of course if just for curiosity, just want to tinker and try for fun, then have at it... make yourself happy

many options out there all work fine, many makers/sources named already, i would throw in belden 9497... differences are non existent to very very subtle unless one has an exceptionally high resolution system, even then, changing speakers, source, or even interconnects will most likely make more of a difference sonically

it is very hard to do quick a/b of speaker cable... (the ava abx comparator does allow this)... once you set up for controlled a/b, better blinded, it is really hard to reliably tell the difference

above all else, i would say, just enjoy the music...

why? just enjoy the music