I also agree that Clear Day Double Shotguns are really world class speaker cables, regardless of price.
I replaced a pair of Gabriel Gold Rapture speaker cables that cost me $1,200 used (the ones that everyone gushes about in another thread) with Clear Day Double Shotguns. It was no contest.
I have also demo'd a pretty wide range of speaker cables in the last few years -- mostly from the Cable Company's lending library -- and the Clear Day Double Shotguns were never surpassed. Some speaker cables I have tried deliver a lot of bass, but often sound slow and seem to close in the mid-range and treble, in order to deliberately emphasize bass frequencies. Others have a wide open top-end, but have MIA bass quantity/quality.
What I hear through the Clear Day Double Shotguns is really wide, open, but non-fatiguing top-end and mid-range, which most really good speaker cables can also deliver. What the Clear Days do better than the other speaker cables I have tried is bass. There is just a lot more wallop, for lack of a better word, like my speakers' frequency response extends about 5-10Hz lower. That combination is pretty unusual in speaker cables.
I honestly don't think that the Clear Day cables are just good "budget" speaker cables. They just happen to be inexpensive and (honestly) pretty dramatically underpriced relative to the competition.
I replaced a pair of Gabriel Gold Rapture speaker cables that cost me $1,200 used (the ones that everyone gushes about in another thread) with Clear Day Double Shotguns. It was no contest.
I have also demo'd a pretty wide range of speaker cables in the last few years -- mostly from the Cable Company's lending library -- and the Clear Day Double Shotguns were never surpassed. Some speaker cables I have tried deliver a lot of bass, but often sound slow and seem to close in the mid-range and treble, in order to deliberately emphasize bass frequencies. Others have a wide open top-end, but have MIA bass quantity/quality.
What I hear through the Clear Day Double Shotguns is really wide, open, but non-fatiguing top-end and mid-range, which most really good speaker cables can also deliver. What the Clear Days do better than the other speaker cables I have tried is bass. There is just a lot more wallop, for lack of a better word, like my speakers' frequency response extends about 5-10Hz lower. That combination is pretty unusual in speaker cables.
I honestly don't think that the Clear Day cables are just good "budget" speaker cables. They just happen to be inexpensive and (honestly) pretty dramatically underpriced relative to the competition.