Speaker cable to tame brightness?

[Womaz]

womaz, I bought van damme hifi 4mm to try with my facts. It's the brand PMC use themselves, so I guess the combination of that and the Bryston amps is what the PMC sound is designed around. It's very reasonably priced by hifi standards. You'll see it (or the blue version) in some photos from PMC demos. Lots of recording studios use it.

I felt it was less bright than the Teddy Pardo cable I was using which is silver based. But I never went back to compare, not least since I'd knicked the WBt banana plugs off teddys cable and couldn't be bothered to put them back again.  I wonder how much of it is imagined as long term the speakers seemed to remain bright in my setup.

I was actually just thinking of resurrecting it on my Neats. I could do with some extra detail back, so if I get around to it should be a good comparison.

Everyone's different but in my case, I need a fairly long time to adjust. I think ultimately you become very used to a sound, and any changes seem quite extreme. At first my Neats seemed like I'd lost all detail compared to the Facts and I doubted I could keep them. A week in, I still feel the same, but the effect is much less - I'm just becoming more used to it.

If you find something reduces brightness but takes away detail (even tone controls) maybe live with it for a few weeks and see if ultimately you stil miss the detail - you may find you don't. He says, thinking about what speaker to try next.....

I will check these out.
I agree with the detail. The more I timker the more i think everything is a compromise. I lose the brightness when treble set to -2.5, but I lose a lot more too. Detail for sure and vocals stand out less. It just sounds much too dull to live with.

I am more thinking along the lines of a cheap speaker cable which is not as revealing as the TQ Black that I have. I paid £200 for this. In my eyes thats a lot of cash for speaker cable.
Just throwing all ideas out there for now.

I will check out the Townshend too but would imagine they are expensive and the MIT probably very difficult to get in UK

Thanks for ideas