Topic: Political & Religious Discussion subforum

[tenpenny]

Oh fookin Monster Cable Syndrome.  Same thing in car audio discussions.

I've sampled a few speaker cables and interconnect cables in my home system and can hear the difference between the various ones I've used... but I'm not talking exotic $1000 cables, I'm talking $100 models 

Is that an actual thing?? I tried to read some forums on cheap vs expensive cables and the two sides were more deeply entrenched that Palestine/Israel conflict. I just went to home depot and bought bigger gauge wire and called it a day.

According to the measurements you start to get signal loss on the lower gauge cables, which are usually the cheaper ones. I don't put much into the measurements though, I go by what I hear and in my system the upgraded cables gave it a more neutral and full tone. My cables are not mega expensive by any means though, I think I paid ~$18/ft back in 2001, it now sells for $23/ft though. I bought 16' in total and then did my own terminations with spades on one end and then banana plugs on the other end, plus they're bi-wired at the speaker end.

Lower gauge cable = larger wire.  You're saying you get signal loss with LARGER cables?  LOL.

[Gurgie]

Oh fookin Monster Cable Syndrome.  Same thing in car audio discussions.

I've sampled a few speaker cables and interconnect cables in my home system and can hear the difference between the various ones I've used... but I'm not talking exotic $1000 cables, I'm talking $100 models 

Is that an actual thing?? I tried to read some forums on cheap vs expensive cables and the two sides were more deeply entrenched that Palestine/Israel conflict. I just went to home depot and bought bigger gauge wire and called it a day.

According to the measurements you start to get signal loss on the lower gauge cables, which are usually the cheaper ones. I don't put much into the measurements though, I go by what I hear and in my system the upgraded cables gave it a more neutral and full tone. My cables are not mega expensive by any means though, I think I paid ~$18/ft back in 2001, it now sells for $23/ft though. I bought 16' in total and then did my own terminations with spades on one end and then banana plugs on the other end, plus they're bi-wired at the speaker end.

Lower gauge cable = larger wire.  You're saying you get signal loss with LARGER cables?  LOL.

Yeah, got that backwards.... fack me,  Was thinking just regular 14AWG cable, as illustrated below. These are the cables I have https://www.kimber.com/products/8TC