Quote Originally Posted by Rikki
I’ve concluded that high end cables/speaker wire are a waste of money and does not significantly improve the sound of your system. As long as your wire has a “solid connection” meaning the wire is not broken or have crimps in it, 10 cent per foot speaker wire performs just as well as $10+ per foot wire.

Here’s how I came to that conclusion…
I have a set of Klipsch RF-7 speakers, and an older high end Yamaha receiver (Yamaha RX-V670). wire. I mean think about it…you can put insulation around wire, braid it in multiple strands like Bo Derek’s hair, and do other tricks, but you can’t really improve wire. Wire is wire.
You should stop right there. RF-7 are highly colored. They are overly bright, and the horn shout is prominent. Not hearing that alone disqualifies you from any hearing experiments. They are not exactly balanced, nor high end. Yamaha doesn't make anything particularly revealing. Instead of discreet components there are integrated circuits. I find the sound opaque. This system could not be used to master recordings, it's colored, and not revealing enough.

This sounds mean, but it's all true.

That is a very bad test bed in which to declare findings.
Your results are flawed.

I witnessed a "contest" like this. A guy told me there is no difference in cd players. I asked him how he came to that conclusion. He tried it on his system, and another system. Sadly, he had bose, and the other system were some technics speakers. Neither one adequate for reference monitoring. This is much the same.

It also assumes you have a reference system, all speakers are equal and all amps are equal. That is all flawed logic.