Speaker wire... Diy?
geoffkait, Have you ever wondered why defibrillators are calibrated/adjusted in Joules and not in Volts or Amperes? Hint: Volts and Amperes are variable. (Volts usually go up to 1000 or so, Amperes up to 40s or so). Otherwise, you get half a point for Volts vs. Amperes statement. It would have been full point if you had elaborated on it with actual numbers. Sound advice: Do not touch electrical parts of Quad speakers (or any other Quad product for that matter). Also, no matter how tickled you may want to be, do not grab 100+ kV power line. |
You got lucky. There are a few threads discussing counterfeit cables with people reporting how they sound. Responses are all over the place. As you probably know, there is no shortage of cable threads here with any topic you can, and cannot, imagine. Good luck getting something out of them, though. They are personality competitions, for the most part. Your thread is, actually, polite and restrained one, but if you are looking for every post being on topic you envisioned, you are on the wrong website. It just does not happen and it would be strange if it did. Multiply that by, at least, 100, if the thread is about cables. You are new to this, so bear with us. |
ddjr, Not to change the topic, but just so you can have a reference of sorts about cables you already have. I hope they are not cheap for a reason. https://www.kimber.com/counterfeits |
"Is a violinist making music if no one is there to hear it?" Unless it is a deaf violinist, there is someone there to hear it so she/he is making music. Assuming she/he did not just start practicing, If she/he did just start, it is probably far from music. Which depends on your perception. Voltage, chemicals, etc. |
"But do you have any opinions on the question that I posed here?" Ooops, sorry, we did not think you were serious. Cable threads inevitably evolve into chat rooms for socializing and have not brought any conclusion yet. "Can I buy the components and put together my own $17000 speaker wires?" It may be possible, but it may cost you as much.
This may be a wrong place to ask. The best would be to call Kimber and Nord, or whoever makes those $17 000 cables, and ask if they would sell you wire and connectors separately so you can assemble them yourself. "...and which are good enough to be used?" You already seem to like Kimber and Nord, why not start with them? For $17 000 cables, you may need to buy exactly that wire to be able to build them yourself. Same goes for connectors. It is next to impossible for any of us, or probably anybody, to answer how to fake an identical copy of the cables you want. Seriously. |
Music is not what emerges from the speakers although it is frequently colloquially thought of it in that way. Music is your perception, mostly in your head. The end of that "music line" is (possibly) chemically-affected electrical charges, I think. Voltage, or whatever else gets into play there. Before that, it is just "movement" of the medium between speakers and your nerves. |
