Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience?


I’m currently running some entry Kimber Kable speaker cables and looking at possibly upgrading. In my research I’ve come across some “budget” options on eBay. I assume they’re not great but curious if anyone has any experience with some “no-name” or “budget” cables? 
 

Thoughts on these? 

Thanks!

paulgardner

There are no qualitative differences between cables above a certain build and materials price point. $20k cables are a rip-off. Yet you can easily spend hundreds of dollars buying cables that you will not be able to distinguish from cables costing orders of magnitude more. Cables are like wine-- many flavors. They do not improve based upon getting more and more and more expensive.

Want to bet? There are easy experiments to test my assertion.

Want to bet? There are easy experiments to test my assertion.

Some links would be useful to post.

Cables depend on system matching of course, but cheapish off the reel cables worth looking at would be Jupiter or Dueland, WE copies? Not tried yet but some good reports. Popular with tube supporters.

I have used the Blue-Jeans speaker and interconnect cables with good success ! I replaced my other cables with them about 10 years ago and they beat them out at a fraction of the cost. I then about a year later, tried Audio-Envy cables and that took my system to another level. Now I use them exclusively both their speaker and interconnect cables. Captain (the owner) at Audio-Envy is great to work with and I’ve upgraded through a few of his improvement changes with great improvements in sound. Their interconnects have fairly low capacitance which allows for longer cabling lengths without attenuating the treble. Highly recommended ! ! ! Give him a call ! He’s easy to talk to and very informative...

i remember quite a few years back, at a high end audio trade show, over a casual lunch break with one lew johnson and jeff fischel of c-j... talking about lotta things, the subject of mega buck cables came up, lew made a point... in the high end audio business many of the true greats, bill j of arc, carl marchisotto of alon, stew tyler of proac, dennis had of cary and so on... no one makes so much money to live in mansions, have sports car collections, etc etc

the few, rare exceptions seen have always been folks who started cable businesses, noel lee, jim aud, joe reynolds and so on... just some food for thought...