cliveb wrote: > Thanks for your impressions. The Nautilus is a legend, and deservedly > so. Being a 20 year old design is no barrier to good performance. > Remember that some people think that the best speaker in history *ever* > is the original Quad ESL - which came out in 1957. > > Regarding your comment about those thin speaker cables - 16AWG is > perfectly adequate for audio signals. Audiophile fashions come and go. > While today's dogma is for massive think cables, I can recall back in > the 1980s when there was a faction who reckoned that speakers should be > connected with very thin single-core cables. (And I'm sure we all > remember that crazy period when Litz wire was de rigueur for hooking up > speakers).
Hmmm, I'll have to look for one of those Quad ESL's to have a listen :-). That's exactly why I took a picture of the speaker cable connection. Extreme "bigger is better" cables are unnecessary other than the "bling" factor. I noticed folks poking around afterwards surprised by how thin those cables looked; I'm sure thinking if bigger gauge may have improved the sound! Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100962 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
