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rdrysdale wrote:

Romy, the first time that I noticed that the speaker wires are very important to the sound was when Steve put some very expensive audiophile wires in place of our normal magnet wire. I walked into the room while familiar music was playing and immediately asked Steve what happened to the system, it sounds terrible, like a transistor radio. He showed me the wires, and then changed back to our standards and all was well. The second time was a near disaster at the RMAF show. We were using some top grade all silver heavy single gage wire that was supplied to us, the sound was so bad that we nearly packed up the speakers and went home. It took nearly all night to discover the problem and correct it.

Yes, the dominating majority of expensive audiophile cables are unspeakable garbage and absolutely unusable. The problem is that people do not recognize the actually quality of the cable but the myth that that “better” cable produce better results…. in realty most of audio people do not know what to do with the cable and hot to assess them. Certainly a lot of foolish companies take advantage of those poor people…

rdrysdale wrote:

At the recent VTV show, I had new wires that I made up, and it took about 4 hours or so before they started to sound right. Late Saturday night we changed amplifiers in the system without disturbing the wires and everything sounded great right away.

Yes, the disturbance of wires is well-known. In my room at take ~ a week to settle the sound down after I move cable as I use liquid dumped cables. I have no explanation for the phenomenon… and I do not tin I should try in this thread… :-)

rdrysdale wrote:

I will do some experimenting with thin gage siver wires, I made some up, but haven't had time to try them out yet. I think since silver is a better conductor than copper, it should sound the best, so far in other peoples testing and our exposure to it at RMAF this hasn't always been the case.

Rich, silver must not be used in audio connectors or wiring and particularly with horns. This is an absolute and incontestable taboo from my point of view and it was well-documented fact (multiple and multiple times) that I was able to unmistakably and blindly to detect a few inches of silver presented in a playback chain. The phrase “silver is a better conductor than copper” is groundless. Silver while transmitting current is warming up less then cooper of the same gage. It makes silver very welcomed to number of commercial application and that give to silver a reputation of “better conductor” however it has no relation to sound. Silver cables, and particulary the pure silver cables must not be used in audio.

Sorry, for my off the subject reply but you should take it under consideration

Rgs,
The caT

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