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tonyb

He is a stand up guy. Make no bones about doing buisness with Signal Cable and Frank. I always suggest that be your first stop when your looking to upgrade that Home depot or Monoprice cable and you don't want to spend alot of coin.

F1nut

cowtrimmer wrote: »

Another helpful audio cable thread. :rolleyes:...........Its not to often that you get to see grown men who spend so much on cable get so **** over the fact that they do. and then get all hurt because everyone doesn't "chipmunk" them.

Another one of your mistaken assumptions. I'm not "****" over the amount of money I've spent on cables. Why should I be, they are worth every penny.

What I see are folks like you that don't have any experience with high end cables stating that they are snake oil and trying to convince those who do have experience that we've wasted our money because you can't afford them. Seems to me you're the one who's ****.

bobsauto49

F1nut wrote: »

Another one of your mistaken assumptions. I'm not "****" over the amount of money I've spent on cables. Why should I be, they are worth every penny.

What I see are folks like you that don't have any experience with high end cables stating that they are snake oil and trying to convince those who do have experience that we've wasted our money because you can't afford them. Seems to me you're the one who's ****.

I have tried the "snake oil" Treatment! Mit Exp2 IC's purchased, AVT2 Speaker wire/8ft purchased,and the Shotgun S3 speaker wire/8ft on a pay/day demo(in which the cables were used,and "broken in"). I also bought Pangea AC14se,and the AC9se! None of these cables made an "audible" or any other difference in my listening pleasure! To each their own,its all about the journey! I kept the Exp2's,and the Avt2's,based on quality build,and i shouldn't have to buy,or worry about cables for my time on earth anymore!
For the OP,start with what u can afford,(signal cable has a great rep around here!) and follow the jouney as far as your wallet will allow u to experience! Good Day,and Good Luck!

stretchl

Frank discounted my $94 purchase to $89.

BlueFox

bobsauto49 wrote: »

I have tried the "snake oil" Treatment! Mit Exp2 IC's purchased, AVT2 Speaker wire/8ft purchased,and the Shotgun S3 speaker wire/8ft on a pay/day demo(in which the cables were used,and "broken in"). I also bought Pangea AC14se,and the AC9se! None of these cables made an "audible" or any other difference in my listening pleasure!

The key here is that you actually tried something, versus the know-it-alls who try nothing. While I do not know why you had a problem not hearing a difference, I suspect for every one who does not hear a difference there are ninety nine who do. Otherwise, all these cable vendors would go out of business. The funny part is the butt munches latch onto the one, and ignore the other ninety nine. :rolleyes:

schaufensterpup

My friend,now listen to me..been doing this for 50 years.It doesn't matter what your speakers are !Unless you have very top end speakers; forget about it...Go to ebay look for some flat speaker cables,most are very good indeed ! For about $20.00-$40.00 a person can get excellent cables (Chinese) from Hong Kong.Don't get fooled from the HYPE,good luck my friend and stay tuned and stay analog......the schaufensterpuppen

leftwinger57

Me, I subscribe to the Rodger Russel school of wire. Maybe 10-12 foot runs needs nothing more than 14 gu. clear zip.As most have chimed in the bigger your system and your wallet will allow then yes invest in boutique branded cables.

tonyb

BlueFox wrote: »

The funny part is the butt munches latch onto the one, and ignore the other ninety nine. :rolleyes:

LOL !!

Not cool making me spit coffee so early on a Sunday.:cheesygrin::cheesygrin:

helipilotdoug

leftwinger57 wrote: »

Me, I subscribe to the Rodger Russel school of wire. Maybe 10-12 foot runs needs nothing more than 14 gu. clear zip.As most have chimed in the bigger your system and your wallet will allow then yes invest in boutique branded cables.

My Brother In Law has a set of ADL 300i auto speakers, and he wanted to see if they would still work. They only have the spring clips, so could not use my regular cables, so I grabbed a roll of zip cord speaker cable I had on the shelf to hook them into my shop system, just to test them.
Here is the roll of 14/2 speaker cable that as you can see was manufactured in Sept. 2009. That's just under 3 years ago.

When you strip this wire, here is what you get. Copper has corroded and is no longer nice and shiny. This is not the old end of the cable, but a section taken from about 6' in.

This is not what I would use for any audio system, no matter what the cost!

VR3

My favorite performer for the dollar is DH Labs Q-10