warmest speaker cables you've heard?

A small value capacitor across the speaker terminals can (may?) add some warmth. You can try caps from 100nf to 1000nf to do some fine tuning. As long as you keep the value small enough it will not attenuate high frequencies within the audible range, but filter noise that allows you to hear high frequencies w/o them being “shouty”. 

I normally use cheap orange drops to find the appropriate value and then change to a high quality film or polystyrene cap if I do see an improvement. That way I’m out $10 - $20 bucks at worst if it doesn’t work for me. 

Admittedly, I never had my girlfriend drop her pants because of them though … 😂🤣

Wire is not a tone control

Says who? Is that a “rule” you thought up yourself or did one of your narrow minded buddies tell you that?

People can do whatever they wish, they most certainly don’t need approval from the likes of you.

People can fantasize about non-existent capabilities and then
project them onto an object and through the art of solipsism realize their dreams.
I think rubbing Carolina Reaper peppers on your cables will warm them up too

I have no idea what you are trying to say … if you’re claiming cabling does not have a sonic imprint on the sound you’d be wrong.  

You want cables that are neutral.

Why? Is there some kind of "audiophile" rule that we need to comply by?

If you have overly bright speakers then maybe buy a warmer sounding speaker such as a British made speaker, wharfedale, tannoy, spendor, harbeth, etc..

Ok, so rather than swapping out cables to solve a possible brightness issue that would cost him $500 - $1,000 to change, you suggest swapping out speakers that may cost $1,000 - $10,000 or even more to change?

Not an economically prudent approach.

My question is why would you want "warm" speaker cables? Don’t you want accuracy?

If a system sounds a little cold, a warm sounding SC may get it to sound neutral - I.e. a more accurate reflection of the original sound. Or get it to sound more to your taste even if not necessarily accurate.

If you want warm sound, just turn the treble tone control down or use an EQ.

Tone controls don’t have the same effect a cable swap. You also need to consider an EQ means adding an additional component and an additional interconnect which will definitely reduce accuracy vs. a one-for-one trade of speaker cables which probably won’t reduce accuracy.

That said, many folks do use tone controls and EQs, so they are viable alternatives

@docroasty


Not sure how this would translate to you RAAL headphones, but I’ve warmed up my sound by wiring a low value cap across the amp terminals. You can get a couple of inexpensive orange drop caps to see if it works and determine which value hits the spot. When you find a value that does what you want you can get a quality film cap.


I used mainly 100nF and 47nF, but you can drop the value much lower if you feel it attenuated the tops too much.


Top shelf 100nF film caps can be had for around $30 a pop.

That capacitance albeit very very low, is the only characteristic that could possibly affect audio.

This probably one of the most profoundly anti-scientific and outright absurd statements I have ever heard in a while.

There is no scientific model that tells us that everything that could possibly affect sound is currently known … and there never will be.
We have recently discovered that all the matter that we can perceive amounts to less than 10% of the total mass of the matter in the universe. In excess of 90% of the mass of our universe we are unable to observe, and in our absolute ignorance we refer to it as “dark matter” and “dark energy”. We know it exist solely because we can see it affect what we can see. What it is, we do not have the faintest clue.

The idea that your 35 years in electronics makes you knowledgeable of everything that could possibly effect sound is pure fantasy. Your statement should read “That capacitance albeit very very low, is the only characteristic that I know of that will effect sound.”

You are both wrong. The argument is senseless.

My argument is “senseless” to those who cannot comprehend the English language and keep within  context.

There is no sense in educating you …

FLMAO. This from somebody who cannot comprehend English.