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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?
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patrickorlando
17 posts
 
Expectation bias, if you expect to hear something you will.
patrickorlando
17 posts
 
Expectation bias, if you expect to hear something you will.
lp2cd
101 posts
 
Well, different cables may sometimes *sound* different, but "do they sound better" is a separate question. If one has just spent mega-bucks on a length of wire one is going to be strongly inclined to *think* they sound better. In any case, de gustibus...
gregp858
30 posts
 
To me it’s all relative to the system! Why would you buy 30k speakers and then want to cheap out on the speaker cable and claim that it doesn’t make a difference! It obviously does or it wouldn’t matter on the quality of wire inside that 30k speaker imho!😎🎶
soix
8,761 posts
 
This 14 gauge wire does not seem to embellish anything.  lol
Why is that funny?

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