I did spend about $150 on the cheapest Audioquest speaker wire, and it did seem to be an improvement on my homemade wires (two 6' runs per speaker of 14AWG "zipcord" with crimped and soldered spades.) I never did put the old ones back to test whether there was really a difference. If there really was one, I suspect it might have had something to do with the terminations; 2 runs of 14AWG is way more than enough for a 6' run. Perhaps I should have tried bare wire before spending more money.
I also recently replaced two 25' runs of Monoprice XLR cable from my pre-amp to my amps with some Bluejeans cable ($107 for two 25' cables), and this seemed to be a big improvement (again, I didn't put the old cable back to listen for a difference). I had some issues with some of my other Monoprice XLRs that shook my confidence in the quality of their connections. The Bluejeans use Neutrik connectors, which have an obviously higher build quality than the ones that Monoprice uses. I hope I'm not on the slippery slope to cable madness. -- Daverz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daverz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86298 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
