I brought home some speaker cables that a friend wasn’t using to try them out. They are 8awg "mil spec" copper with a very nice looking silver coating on each strand. Nice gold plated BFA (aka Z style) banana plugs. Put them in and immediately noticed nice midrange and treble. Listening to jazz they seemed fine.
Then I put on some rock and some classical with good bass and they were severly lacking in bass (could be they are just strong in mid/treble so when I turn them down to get the midrange the right volume, the bass is too low. I plan to do a volume test with test tones without changing volume controls to see which it is.
If he doen’t want them back I’ll make a nice power cord from them.
Jerry
PS I keep repeating myself so I'm sure some of you have heard it before but I am a very strong believer in never using a cable for digital that isn't at least silver coated.