*WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters

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b4icu- Again. My Melody integrated amp is model I-880. You can use your incredible expertise to look up the DF. I require 8 feet. Can’t wait to hear the wonderful wires you build me. PM me when its ready I’ll give you my shipping address.

Your name by the way reminds me of the 60’s Sunday morning kids show JP Patches. A clown. His side kick Gertrude was a guy with obvious 5 o’clock shadow in drag and Army boots. This all being preposterous even to kids isn’t all that reminds me of you however. It was the gimmick that they could see you through the TV camera. They called it the ICU2TV.

Mr. millercarbon 

With all the respect to your empiring methode, it will take you a lifetime to tune into the right cable, and still you may not get there. On top, when cables are relatively costly, it may cost you a bit.
If you would step up and use your brain, you could be there (the best cable for your system) at one try, just by a small calculation. I'll be happy to do that for you. All I need is the Amp's Df figure and the length of the cables required.

Yes, I see. It's clear I have much to learn. I know only of cathode, triode, pentode. What is this "methode" of which you speak? 

My Melody integrated amp is model I-880. You can use your incredible expertise to look up the DF. I require 8 feet. Can't wait to hear the wonderful wires you build me.

Remarkable the way people who have never heard them nevertheless know they can’t work. Sadly, I possess no powers that enable me to know how anything sounds by looking. Or measuring. The only cable measurement I have any faith in at all is length. The only way I know to determine how something sounds is to hook it up and listen.

Might be a while. But I am working on it.

This thread is yet another wonderful illustration of why its such a waste of time for audiophiles to talk tech. Its all well and good for engineers and designers. But with audiophiles all that happens is the same BS just different words.  

When we get good sound we love it so much we just can't help but want to know all about it. Only thing, the more we learn the more it remains a mystery. Some guy comes along with a nice story. Might as well admit, its a nice story. Probably even some of it is true. Whatever true means. As if we know even that much.  

Just you who knock it, don't pretend you're any better. When it comes to understanding what's really going on we're all pretty much shivering around the campfire in the darkness hoping the tiger's not too hungry tonight.

All I really want to know, how's it sound?

Well, there went my morning! ;) 

Seriously, a very good read that explains a lot of what I have heard from different cables.