Iconoclast speaker cables

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I personally find it tantamount to purchasing aftermarket 6" X 13" bias ply h-rated tires & wheels for a new GT-3.

Yes, but as a person who has spent a small part of my career in noise and vibration research including designing my own transducers, but most of it designing and running racing cars I know of clear, obvious and valid reasons why fitting bias ply low speed rated tyres to a GT3 would be stupid and dangerous.

But there is absolutely no technical reason why spending more than £50 on speaker cables is anything other than stark staring bonkers.

It seems a few people hear differences and feel the need to spend a fortune on what can be done for a few quid, which is fair enough, it is their money.

But your analogy is completely and absolutely wrong, I'm afraid, it is in no way tantamount to putting dangerously unsuitable tyres on a car.

Sorry for the rant but bad analogies are a bugbear of mine, and this is very, very bad.

Honestly, the thought that there is no technical reason to spend any extra money on cables because there is no sound difference between them is exactly how these cables came about. Do what the original poster did. Borrow some nice cables and hook them up to your system and listen to the difference. The designer of the cables the OP is taking about had the same attitude. Then he designed his cables. He has some amazing stories about other cable designers also. If you have a devialet and a nicely set up system, I think you will hear a difference. If all you do is drive a GT-3 through city traffic, you may have no idea how well the car can perform.