MrSinatra;620030 Wrote: > lets say someone had a pricey high end setup of gear for a quiet > listening room and needed 20 feet of wire each to two speakers. > > would the 16guage speaker wire at radio shack be ok? > > the heart of my question is how good does the wire need to be, (brand, > cost, etc) to show that it is demonstrably better than something > "lesser" but at the same time would not get any "better" by going more > expensive? > > to put it another way, what examples are there that fit my example > above? they aren't too shitty, they aren't excessive, they're "just > right?"
The thing is, you don't know what you got until you lose it. We've all experienced this many times in our lives. You may get a 16 gauge Radio Shack wire, and things will sound just great. What you won't be able to hear at that point is the grain and the glare that such wire may introduce (I'm just hypothesizing here, please bear with me for the sake of the discussion). Now switch to a more expensive wire (say, Cardas Crosslink S1). Suddenly, you lose some grain and some glare. Now you realize what you've lost. And you're liking the new 'regime'. Now that you've experienced that, you become curious. What if I upgrade Cardas to something better? This is what actually happened to me. I upgraded Cardast to Nordost and, holly molly, lost more glare and grain yet again! Now i'm liking how my system sounds even better. My question now is: where do I stop? I now know that if I upgrade Nordost to something better, I'll probably be able to realize even bigger loss. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86483 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
