EnochLight;274847 Wrote: > Fight! > > http://gizmodo.com/363154/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger > > *runs and hides* > > ;-P
The article writer put a picture of Interconnects at the top of the page with a coat hanger, BUT the article is about cabling speakers NOT interconnects. He probably did this to cause more confusion or to add to the hysteria. The guy probably had the cheapest Monster Speaker Cable they make which does not show a good Monster Logo so he put the picture of the interconnects in. Some people will have trouble with this, but here goes: Speaker Cable is PART of your overall audio system. More importantly it is an interactive part of the system and has a relationship on how things sound and behave between your amp and speakers. As an example somebody might be in love with a specific amp and has to use it but its sounds bright with the speakers they love. A careful choice of Speaker Cable (cant be in love here) in this example could make for a perfect system for the person in this example. Additionally, what it all comes down to is what sounds right, correct, special, perfect, and what you prefer in the end. That my friends is the PERFECT Speaker Cable. Not the one that costs $15K per meter or 39 cents a foot, but the one that sounds the way audio should sound to you! The current wire I am using DIY costs a $1.25 a foot (so $5 a foot for true bi-wire). A famous speaker manufacture suggested how to buy the perfect speaker cables for me and my system. First he said that he could not tell me what to buy because even with his speakers it was different for everybody because of component mix, listening room, the kind of music, and what sounds right to the end listener. Second he said he would not tell me what he uses because it would just cause a controversy (the He Said thing). Third he said to try multiple sets of wire until I found a set that sounded as transparent as a one-inch piece of 18 AWG solid copper wire. To paraphrase his advice on the best Speaker Cables for anybody, that would be the wire with the sonic characteristics that work best with your electronics, your speakers, your listening room, and your personal listening tastes. Change any of the four determining factors, and the best wire may also change. With all the mega buck cables out there, all the science, all the smoke and voodoo, and crazy wire manufacturing processes today, some of the best wire I have owned has been the original Tara Labs and Anti-Cables Countinuous Cast OFC (still own both). Both of these wires are solid core that do not have to deal with skin effect holes caused by overlapping multi-strand wire designs. Both wires also enable you to do true bi-wiring which is where the high frequency and low frequency pairs of wire running from the joined amplifier end are separated for the entire run to the speaker terminals (mine by four inches). Running two pairs of wire inside the same jacket is not bi-wiring. The two fields are expanding and collapsing on both pairs of wire at the same time. Using proper test equipment easily demonstrates the difference between real bi-wiring and running two pair inside the same jacket. Does the extra wire help; it does, but only to increase the over all net gauge of the cable and does not yield what true bi-wiring yields. True bi-wiring with less expensive wire can often yield better sonic results then more expensive single runs. As a side note, true bi-wiring requires two pair of the same wire of the same length separated by 3 to 6 inches for the entire run from amp to speaker input. -- iPhone iPhone Last.FM http://www.lastfm.com/user/mePhone Media Room: Transporter, Vandersteen Quatro Signature, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center Channel, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco 710, RAM Oppo DV970HD, VeraStarr 6.4SE Living Room: Squeezebox 3, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold Bedroom: Squeezebox 3, Thiel 2.3, NAD C370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44124
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