New speaker cables

I guess AQ has moved on to type 5. 🤷‍♂️

I've had a pair or two of AQ Type 4 in one system or another for past 20 years...

I found that interconnects affected SQ more than speaker cables. Once I was happy with my SC's, I started rolling ICs. It became an addiction, buying and reselling, because with each purchase there was an improvement in SQ.

@voodoolounge

Yes. Over my time my audio library has been repeatedly refreshed and revealed more and more upon each upgrade. The most amazing was stuff I listened to when really young… never knew the words, then the instruments separated and became identifiable and astonishingly strong and clear… in particular The Beatles and Crosby, Nash, and Young. Although the list is huge.

It's cool when you add something new to the chain and it's an improvement, now you can listen to your vinyl collection all over again. 

Congrats on your journey.  I experimented on cables with a pessimistic bias and boy was I surprised and both happy and sad.

Happy because it had an impact.

Sad because I didn't really budget for cables - the good news I was able to audition upgrad over the course of the pandemic since I wasn't socializing with others!

Audioquest type 4

A darn good cable for the money. 

Believe me....Lowe's zip cord blows away the Home Depot stuff.

@gosta ,

+1

Cables? I`m staying away from the "rabbit hole".

Good for you! Same thing happened to me. I didn’t believe higher quality cables could make a sonic difference until I finally acquired some and tried them. 

I don’t want’em to matter, so they don’t.

Audioquest type 4

Everything matters. What cables?

Okay, what cables did you get? 

Of course they matter.Enjoy!

Congradulations!  Yes, they matter… the beginning of creating a system that performs beyond just the components. 

I think the argument that cables don’t matter has gotten garbled through too many repetitions. I believe the actual argument is that two cables with the same resistance, capacitance and inductance will sound identical. It has been shown through measurements that large differences in these values can cause large variations in frequency response. I think even the most hard-core objectivists agree with that, although I’m not sure there’s anything we can’t disagree about.