Practical advice on speaker cables please ?
 

Jo wrote:

I'm wondering if I should set up a business selling gold plated mains cables
with 13A plugs to the more gullible members of the hifi fraternity for
£99.99 a throw? Obviously, I would need to do a course on creative writing
first :-)

Jo

I worked in a Hifi Store during a minor setback in my normal path of
employment, the kind of weapons grade BS I heard and I'm afraid to admit
dispensed to the customers myself at times in that place would leave
even the most creative of writers smoking at the starting line I tells
ye. I've done blind testing with £1000+ cable sets and standard 2.5mm^2
flexible cable and never once found an individual who could tell the
difference, but when they could see the exclusively wound cables in
their silk sheaths it was a completely different matter.

On the other hand I've had to dye my hair pink after a bet and a blind
test involving some foam like pads that went between a pair of Grand
Coup`e's (how do you make that apostrophe thingy on a UK keyboard?) and
sand filled Soundstyle stands.

So I guess the pendulum swings both ways and all that business..


// J

Practical advice on speaker cables please ?
 

In article , Glenn Richards
wrote:
Roderick Stewart wrote:

Go to B&Q and buy some of their loudspeaker cable.

s/loudspeaker cable/bell wire

They sell bell wire too, but the stuff I bought as loudspeaker cable
has such a thick bunch of strands of copper I only just managed to get
it through the little holes in my loudspeaker terminals. It certainly
isn't bell wire.

What I replaced with it was some ancient figure of eight two core mains
cable with transparent plastic insulation, the sort of thing that might
have been used on a table lamp a few decades ago (and probably was).
The copper in the loudspeaker cable was visibly thicker than this table
lamp wire I'd been using for years, yet in all honestly I cannot say I
noticed any difference whatsoever.

Rod.

Practical advice on speaker cables please ?
 

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:01:00 -0000, "Serge Auckland"
wrote:


"Jo" wrote in message
...
In . uk,
Glenn Richards typed:
Jo wrote:

I just need an idea of cross-sectional area and where I can get some
suitable cable. I'm not convinced by the talk of OFC and so on.
Multistranded copper of sufficient thickness is fine by me.
Suggestions please ?

Gale XL-105, 69p/metre at Richer Sounds. Or if you need lots, you can
get the same stuff at CPC for about £20 for a 100m roll (different
name on it, same cable as far as I can tell).

Nice and flexible, doesn't sound bad either.

I googled on Gale XL-105 and one of the web sites said this:
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However, it does have a rather raw quality with some programme material,
and there is a sense akin to stasis at times.
Music simply goes through the motions, but somehow nothing much seems to
happen, and imagery stays firmly locked into the speaker enclosures. It
also sounds rather grainy at times.
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Which was rather typical of most websites I visited, even Gales
themselves. Significantly, among all of the lurid prose few of the
websites mention the most important parameter, ohms/meter. And even if
this is somewhat high on a long wiring run, how could anybody possibly
hear the "raw quality" described ?

I'm wondering if I should set up a business selling gold plated mains
cables with 13A plugs to the more gullible members of the hifi fraternity
for £99.99 a throw? Obviously, I would need to do a course on creative
writing first :-)

Jo

Incatech already did that!

So did Russ Andrews!

Heck, I remember him when he was a simple sales droid in Hi-Fi Corner
in Edinburgh. Who eleveated him to guru status?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering