Speaker Cables

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My Devialets are back at the factory being mended.
At first I thought I might bring my study or bedroom system downstairs but decided to give the old Audioanalyse A90 I had lying around a go.
Not wanting to damage my 130,000 Euro Goldmunds or £30,000 Tune Audio speakers by connecting a 25 year old amp with a fault I first used them with some SoundPax speakers, which for those that are unfamiliar are NXT omnidirectional pyramids. They came with a bit of wire of bell wire dimensions with tinned ends for the clip type connectors on the (£10) speakers.
I measured the amp's DC offset, played for a few hours to make sure all was OK.
Then, as a quick check, rather than re-running the normal cables, I connected the wires that came in the box with the £10 speakers to the Goldmunds.
So here I am temporarily listening to a 25 year old amp via a few pence worth of wire into the Goldmunds and it fabulous, massively better than I would have thought possible.


I am so stunned by how unexpectedly good the system is sounding I couldn't resist posting.

As some of you know I have never heard a difference between cables in carefully level matched comparisons, but had only used what I consider "adequate" in terms of gauge, capacitance and inductance wires with good connectors (I would expect differences between good and poor connectors) or branded specialist speaker cables.
This time the wire is a much lower gauge than I would hitherto considered adequate, and being very long it has a coil of excess wire which will add inductance.

So maybe my £15 heavy gauge speaker cables were overkill