Biggest Baddest Audio Cables

Way back when the fulton "j"'s were one of the hottest speakers around they would be demonstrated with a cable that looked like the cabling going from a ground auxillary power unit to an aircraft. they had to be 2.5 inches across, and god were they hard to use!

I had Fulton Js and used their cable. It was welding cable and had to be a certain length, 29" if I recall. It was about 1/2 inch in diameter. I never saw anything 2 1/2 inches across. The Fulton cable was soon followed by the Cobra and then Bill Low put out many more cables, and we were off to the races.

The funny thing is that it is harder to make a large guage cable sound good because the frequincy balanced gets scewed towards bass with the larger conducters and the skin efect goes up creating a grainy and splashy extention in the highs.

I'm glad to see that someone ( Charker ) finally mentioned the original "biggest, baddest" speaker cable i.e. the "original MONSTER" cable. That is, the old Fulton Gold's. These were 4 gauge and pretty rigid. The rigidity did not come from the size of the conductor so much as it did the type of dielectric that they used. As far as physical size goes, these were 7/8's of an inch across the two conductors.

Tireguy: Cornfedboy was not "banned" or "kicked off" Agon. He voluntarily "retired" as he is now working on an as needed basis for Agon. As such, he publicly declared his his affiliation with Agon and decided that his continuing to post in the forums could be construed as Agon trying to demonstrate favouritism to specific brands, subjects, etc... when Kelly responded. As such, he did the ethical thing and decided to lay low. This speaks volumes about Kelly as how many other "ethical lawyers" do you know ? : )

Duane: It is not the gauge of the conductor that creates the problems that you mention so much as it is the geometry of the conductors and how the conductors are made. If a cable is "all skin" i.e. a wide & flat solid conductor, it will not suffer from skin effect and strand jumping. Both of these are what i consider to be major problems with "most" heavy gauge stranded wires that are lumped together in one dielectric jacket. Sean
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I would love to have the money you guys are throwing away on speaker cables. But don't take my word for it, just pay a visit to the following link and included is Gordon Gow's opinion. That's McIntosh for you who are not familiar with his name.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rogerr7/wire.htm