Polk Cobra cable

weavercr
weavercr Posts: 289
edited January 2008 in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
I know Polk had it sub contracted out.

Question for Ken or Micah.

Who was the Sub contractor?

Do you guys have any laying around on the dusty shelves?
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  • nascarmann
    nascarmann Posts: 1,464
    edited June 2002
    weavercr,

    If you don't mind me asking. Why do you want this cable?

    KING ?
    Oh, the bottle has been to me, my closes friend, my worse enemy!
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  • weavercr
    weavercr Posts: 289
    edited June 2002
    IMO it the best speaker cable period. I have tested many brands. I used to have some but I no longer have any. I seen it tested at shows and out do some very expensive cable. Back when I brought mine I paid $2.00 a foot.
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  • nascarmann
    nascarmann Posts: 1,464
    edited June 2002
    OK! I have read somethings about that cable and found one of the articles and this is a paragraph out of it. I will post the link after this post.


    Now I have seen many quasi-technical dissertations out there recently purporting to show that different wire constructions have different pulse characteristics (of course they do, but at what frequencies, and under what test conditions?) Unless the tests are conducted with battery powered generators and oscilloscopes, any ripples seen on pulse tests are as likely to be grounding interactions as indications of cable merit. And, if you want to know more about adverse cable loads affecting amplifier performance, ask Polk Audio about their ill-fated Cobra Cables which tended to blow up output inductorless amplifiers - a cable and amplifier interaction that everybody could hear.
    Oh, the bottle has been to me, my closes friend, my worse enemy!
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  • nascarmann
    nascarmann Posts: 1,464
    edited June 2002
    Here is the article.


    http://www.avahifi.com/cables.htm


    Oh, the bottle has been to me, my closes friend, my worse enemy!
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  • weavercr
    weavercr Posts: 289
    edited June 2002
    I knew about the problems with the wire and the solution to prevent the problem to amps. Tube amps were un-effected. Cheaply made solid state amps were killed quite often. I posted info on this wire in one of the wire thing pt...

    The wire had the least inductive reactance and a very high capacitance reactance, which is what killed many amps.
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,413
    edited June 2002
    Polk "killed" alot of amps, I have heard the SDA's refered to as "amp killers" Cobra + SDA's = dead amps laying all around.
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
    Monarchy Audio SE100 Delux - mono power amps
    Sony DVP-NS999ES - SACD player
    ADS 1230 - Polk SDA 2B
    DIY Stereo Subwoofer towers w/(4) 12 drivers each
    Crown K1 - Subwoofer amp
    Outlaw ICBM - crossover
    Beringher BFD - sub eq

    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,201
    edited June 2002
    LOL thats a funny post.
    Dan
    My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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  • weavercr
    weavercr Posts: 289
    edited June 2002
    POLK (COBRA) SPEAKER CABLE (MULTIPLES ONLY)- This speaker wire (8 cables in parallel) has proven to be superior to every other cable that I have compared with it, at all prices points, for over 20 years now. It was even far superior to the $15,000, top-of-the-line Kimber at the Las Vegas CES show a few years ago.

    The Polk is very transparent, lucid, clean and extended in the highs. It is not for those audiophiles looking for something "euphonic" to complement digital or solid-state sound. It is the most revealing cable ever made and it must be used in parallel or else it will sound lean on low-impedance speakers.
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  • nascarmann
    nascarmann Posts: 1,464
    edited June 2002
    OK! Hope you find some. I think I will stay away? Hell, I'm a cheap **** that will not spend more than .50' for wire anyway?:lol:

    KING WIRE
    Oh, the bottle has been to me, my closes friend, my worse enemy!
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  • jmwest1970
    jmwest1970 Posts: 846
    edited September 2007
    Talk about digging up a dead thread...:rolleyes:

    Does anyone know what these things looked like?
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited September 2007
    Post #12


    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38160&highlight=cobra+speaker
    HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable

    2 Channel Thorens TD 318 Grado ZF1, SACD/CD Marantz 8260, Soundstream/Krell DAC1, Audio Mirror PP1, Odyssey Stratos, ADS L-1290, ICs-DIY Twisted , Speaker-Raymond Cable
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  • jmwest1970
    jmwest1970 Posts: 846
    edited September 2007
    Cool! When I picked up my pair of Monitor 10s the guy threw one in. He would've given me both, but he couldn't find the other one. I may have to compare it against my IXOS Gamma cables.
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