Quote Originally Posted by EdwardGein
My own personal experience with Analog Cables is that More Expensive Cables for my Jolida JD100A CD player didn't improve sound at all and in fact often made audio worse and I got the best results with cheap Acoustic Research Performance Series Audio cables that one can get at Best Buy. Maybe there's also "a rule" that if your speakers and sub cost $800 and one has a 10 year old Denon Receiver (AVR 3801) spending a lot of money on cables is a mistake. Has anyone here ever found a night and day difference in sound from a pair of cables? When I read reviews on Audio Review and in other places, I'm practically drooling over these expensive cables but when I try them out I'm utterly disappointed as they seem to take the guts and life out of the sound. I'm posting this because I'm going to buy analog cables when I get Blu-Ray and maybe someone really has gotten startling sound with their cables.
Every cable I've tried sounds different and the price of the cable had very little to do with whether it was an improvement. It's always a matter of synergy with your equipment.

Many years ago I didn't believe that wire made a difference until a dealer told me to take a speaker cable home and just try it. I did and it made a huge difference in the wrong direction, but it showed me that wire does change the sound.

My goal in my system is transparency.

I have tried many different wires up to about $500 and while most of them were better than zip cord, my favorite and what I use now is 24 gauge solid core silver plated Teflon coated wire. Keep in mind that I am bi-amping with two Trends 10.1 T-amps at about 5 watts of clean power so I don't need thick wires to carry a huge current. Total cost for two sets of 12 foot wires is $20. Of course the cost will go up a little after I put them in a sleeve and terminate them with banana plugs. I figure that the final cost for these wire will be about $40.

I also made two sets (4 cables) of interconnects from the same wire for about $10 which includes the sleeves and RCA terminations. These wires go between my electronic crossover to my multichannel preamp. I still have two more sets to make between the preamp and amps, but I am already using pretty good cables there (DH Labs Revelation at about $800 for both sets).

I told a friend of mine about this wire and so he tried it too. He told me that he preferred the lamp cord he has been using for years (I haven't heard the 24 gauge wire in his system yet). Years ago I sent him a very nice thick gauge Zip cord and he also preferred his lamp cord. I heard both of these (zip and lamp) in his system and I agree with him that the lamp cord was better.

I've had Nordost, Audioquest, MIT, ZIP cord, Cat 5 and several others (including different models of each) in my system. There are so many different companies to choose from.

I've also heard some of this wire in systems where I couldn't hear any differences. The cost of the system was a non issue in this case. I changed the wire on a shelf system (cheap) and the change was huge, but when I tried this on my brothers and my cousins systems, I heard no difference.

Oh, a long time ago I made a pair of interconnects out of Cat 5 cable and it sounded pretty good on my system, but on my friends system it sounded terrible.

The point is, don't drool over expensive cables, they may not be synergistic with your system.

As for whether wire can make a huge difference, I would say "yes" depending on your system.

For me, 24 gauge solid core is the best I've ever had and it is also very cheap to buy.

BTW, many years ago I bought a Nordost Moonglo Digital Interconnect for $200. I thought it was pretty good, but looking back at it, it looks like the same construction as my DIY cables I am now using, but at a huge price increase. The gauge may be different and the termination is different, but basically the construction is the same.

If you try the expensive stuff, make sure you can return it.

Morrow Audio has a return policy. I haven't tried this cable, but he is into small gauge solid core which seems to work well in my system. Below is the email he sent to me last...
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