Hello,so I hadn’t planned on chiming in until I read a comment on the second page about Audioquest type 4 speaker wire.All I can say is 7or 8 years ago ago I owned 5 ten ft. runs of it for a surround system. It worked wonderful for movies and tv,was reasonably priced, 150.00 a pc for 10 ft.run. I had a decent two channel set up in a separate room for music. That system was Parasound JC1 monos,BAT VK 52 pre,Dynaudio Confidence speakers, and Nordost Valhalla speaker cables,2 m. For kicks and giggles a friend and I switched out just speaker cable to hear the difference. First we tried the Audioquest type 4. I was completely amazed at how lifeless and terrible sounding it became. I knew the Nordost was better cable. I just wasn’t expecting such a huge,terrible sounding difference. I also had a set of Nordost Baldur speaker speaker cable we tried next. This was so much better than the AQ, and not that much more expensive. So this was my experience,with those components in the system. If your using Audioquest type 4 and happy, just don’t ever try a better speaker cable. You will hear an improvement. If you can’t,there’s an issue with your hearing or something. Sorry to burst your bubble,but you probably won’t hear it pop! Good day,John
Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire?
After listening to many speaker cables, I am listening to basic 14 Gauge, high purity copper speaker wire and find myself shaking my head. Does this basic speaker wire sound better than cables many times the price? I am really starting to ponder that question. I think I am hearing things on my records I never heard before and better balance of sound. What are your thoughts?