Speaker cables - what do you use...?

[Resident Loser]

...50ft/ch of 10ga. jacketed sound re-enforcement(P.A.) wiring...and no, my speakers aren't 100ft apart...(just pre-empting the remarks from the usual suspects)...my gear is in another room...

Before that I had tried a pair of Polk Cobra's...this was some time ago mind you...they may have caused my integrated to go south in a puff of acrid, green smoke due to capacitance loading...at least that's a best guess...'til that point, there was no discernible sonic diff IMO...afterward, just a shop bill...

Before that probably some 12-14ga generic zip...

Remember, difference is just that and nothing more...very subjective AND anecdotal in nature...

Wire is passive...it can "boost" one segment of the frequency spectrum only by attenuating another...it's all relative...


jimHJJ[...therefore, wire is wire...or more precisely: Since there is, at this time, no objective, conclusive and repeatable evidence provided by currently applied and accepted test methodology and within commensurate parameters germaine to the subject under test to the contrary, further augmented by analysis of subjective evaluation produced under strict controls and protocols, there simply is no proof, other than that provided as anecdotal evidence (which is subject to a vast array of potential biases) that there is any significant audible difference in wire of a similar type, length and gauge.;-p...]