We all know that a certain amount of controversy exists about the benefits
or not of vastly expensive oxygen free or whatever special cables to connect
one's amplifier to one's speakers. The LS3/5a, as we all know, is a
famously accurate speaker and much beloved by a certain type of music
listener, I have had my pair for twenty years and have never found any
speakers I like better (that I could afford). This weekend I have had
occasion to remove the baffle plate from my Rogers LS3/5a speakers and what
I found provokes the following question: What is the point of expensive,
fat, super cables from the amplifier when from the banana plug receptacle to
the crossover and the speakers themselves are thin, scrawny little bits of
wire such as I wouldn't use for a 25 watt light bulb? This is what I found
in my speakers and if you doubt me I suggest you take yours apart and see
what is within. Surely if these thin little bits of wire are capable of
providing the superb sound that emanates from the speaker then a decent
piece of lamp flex will be quite suitable to connect the amp to the speaker?
What arguments can be offered to support the need for expensive cables then?

D.