Hi
Speaker cables are a difficult topic. The truth is that no one really knows what cable would be best for your speaker. I do.
Unfortunately, the industry of speaker cables (actually all kind of cables) is included in my say. For years we get directions on topics that are non-relevant:
Cable direction, Cable purity, Silver over Copper, Cryogenic treat, Bi-wire and more. It doesn't take 4 years of engineering to figure it out.
However, different speaker cables sometimes sound better (some other times not!), and the endless buy and try is costly and terribly inefficient.
Actually, even though the cable is named after the speaker (Speaker Cables), it should be named after the Amplifier!
The cable is an extension of the Amp's Damping Factor (DF). The higher the DF, the thicker the cable needs to be. When it is a tube Amp. with DF as low as 8,
The cable is insignificant. But when it goes in the hundreds it is. When it is as high (and good) as of a Devialet Amp (8,000!), it is most significant.
I've heard critics of Devialet Amp demos that didn't do the wow factor. The blame is the speaker cable. I assume that they placed it right and used a proper source.
I have a friend in the US, who owns a set of Magnepans with a Devialet Amp. He had thickened his #0 AWG cable into a 4x #0 AWG (should have been x16 times!
And sound had improved dramatically. The #0 AWG improved dramatically, when he used with a PASS power Amp. replacing a #12 AWG cable.
I conducted an experiment, with a test group (on Audiogon) and also some local friend and it works. I calculated a friend, a set of #4 AWG for his PASS and B&W801D,
that broke when cleaned. With my demo #0 AWG and as predicted, sound didn't improve by a bit.
Speaker cables are a difficult topic. The truth is that no one really knows what cable would be best for your speaker. I do.
Unfortunately, the industry of speaker cables (actually all kind of cables) is included in my say. For years we get directions on topics that are non-relevant:
Cable direction, Cable purity, Silver over Copper, Cryogenic treat, Bi-wire and more. It doesn't take 4 years of engineering to figure it out.
However, different speaker cables sometimes sound better (some other times not!), and the endless buy and try is costly and terribly inefficient.
Actually, even though the cable is named after the speaker (Speaker Cables), it should be named after the Amplifier!
The cable is an extension of the Amp's Damping Factor (DF). The higher the DF, the thicker the cable needs to be. When it is a tube Amp. with DF as low as 8,
The cable is insignificant. But when it goes in the hundreds it is. When it is as high (and good) as of a Devialet Amp (8,000!), it is most significant.
I've heard critics of Devialet Amp demos that didn't do the wow factor. The blame is the speaker cable. I assume that they placed it right and used a proper source.
I have a friend in the US, who owns a set of Magnepans with a Devialet Amp. He had thickened his #0 AWG cable into a 4x #0 AWG (should have been x16 times!
And sound had improved dramatically. The #0 AWG improved dramatically, when he used with a PASS power Amp. replacing a #12 AWG cable.
I conducted an experiment, with a test group (on Audiogon) and also some local friend and it works. I calculated a friend, a set of #4 AWG for his PASS and B&W801D,
that broke when cleaned. With my demo #0 AWG and as predicted, sound didn't improve by a bit.
