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| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Dynaquest4No worries. here's the explanation of what I posted.Argument from authority, also ad verecundiam and appeal to authority, is a common form of argument which leads to a logical fallacy.[1]In informal reasoning, the appeal to authority is ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Appeal to Authority Alert!!"Dr. Waldron has two Phd’s in music and computer science and over thirty years as a recording and mastering engineer. Who do you think I’m going to put credibility in?"Sorry to say, that just screams Appeal to Authority.... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... wolf_garciaI reported on a thorough test I did of SR fuses a while back, in which I concluded that they did nothing to enhance the sound of my well sorted system, and in fact a couple of them blew as they don’t seem to be rated properly. My conclu... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Nyame"As Bill Clinton has pointed out " It depends on what "directional is." I replaced 10 fuses in my system and after replacing the final fuse noted a fall-off in performance. I reversed the physical direction of the fuse and and optimum perform... | |
| 12 ft pair of thick speakers cables?? Can they be cut downt to a 6 ft pair?? Wasn't it John Curl and Bob Crump who opined that speaker cables should be a specific length, around 5 feet, perhaps to minimize reflections traveling down the cable, something like that? | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Re the "good succinct article on cables"Obviously it’s not really too hard to find a bunch of audiophiles somewhere who either can’t set up a system correctly and/or can’t hear. In fact, we see it quite frequently right here on Agon. Actually no s... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? AlmargSo if a silver cable sounds better in a given application than a copper cable, the slightly higher conductivity/lower resistivity of silver compared to copper is very unlikely to be the reason.I'll go out on a limb here and say that silver n... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Bingo! We have a match! Mopman and Georgelobrow. Trolls extraordinaire, the Frick & Frack of Mid Fi. But seriously folks, isn't all this anger, name calling and angst simply a symptom of just how wide the gap is between the Mid Fi and High End... | |
| 12 ft pair of thick speakers cables?? Can they be cut downt to a 6 ft pair?? And speaking of Mapleshade tweaks, my and everybody's favorite, Ground Plane Ribbon Streamers.http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/Ground-Plane-Ribbons/products/227/Cheers | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? From the Acrolink website (Japan)"There is a strong demand in the market for high purity copper with a purity level of 6N or more, which is used to produce the wire material of highly integrated semiconductors. It had been developed and put in pra... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Let me get this straight. Mapman, the Principal Troll and naysayer supreme on fuse threads, who professes he cannot hear the difference between a stock fuse and a high end fuse and who also cannot hear the difference in directionality of fuses, is... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? JitterGeoff stuttered:most high end wire is 99.9999 pure. Do the math. That’s more than 100 times purer than 99.95% pure copper. Hel-looto which jitter replied,"Let say the high end wire was 100% pure. The monoprice wire at 99.95% pure is 5 one hu... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? JetterOk Geoff, I was being lazy and didn’t bother to look up the specs, here you go, costing $15:Choice™ Series 12AWG Oxygen-Free Pure Bare Copper Speaker Wire, 50ft. Get the most out of your home audio system with high quality, oxygen-free, pure... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? 99% pure copper? Gosh, you really are naive. Besides, the uber expensivo cables usually aren't copper. Hel-loo! | |
| Anticables I’m sure Belden and Alfa cables are made well but they don’t sound quite as good as some high end cables . Maybe if you cryod them they'd have a better chance. Another inexpensive wire is mil spec US Navy wire, silver Teflon copper, available all... |