No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need

Mr. khiak

Thanks.

1. The imgur software:

Click this: https://imgur.com/a/9IPINRA (the updated spreadsheet is there).

Click the green box on left top of the screen that say: New post.

On the window that opens, drag a picture. It will upload to the site.

On the right top of the screen, an HTTP address line is created, next to the button: Copy.

Copy it to your post.

Every time someone clicks it here, a new window will open and your uploaded picture will show up. Repeat the process for more pictures.

2. The prices on the old cables (that been replaced by the DIY) are very high. It’s sum is over $30,000.- were replaced by $300.-!!!

I assume that a US $8,000.- US $8,400.- and US $17,000.- are what some industry representatives here used to call Hi-end speaker cables. Call it whatever you like…I call it robbing $30,000.- from people, by taking advantage of their innocent desire to get a better sound out of their system.

This revelation of yours (impression vs. cable value) is exactly what my claim was.

Reading their adv. On site: https://audiofederation.com/brands/kharma/kharma-price-list

And https://blinkhighend.com/shop/cables/ansuz-speakz-speaker-cables/

No technical data at all! Some mambo jumbo on technology, some "purity" crap, "one-material conductor-termination-circuit" superiority (?) and a staggering price.

Calculations: None

Fit to customer requirements: None

Technical data for a skilled audiophile to pick the right one: None

Results: 

Over $30,000.- of cost to be beaten by some understanding (in electronics) and $300.- of materials cost.

• b4icu
  

Mr. khiak

I'm not giving up on you. Let's do it step by step:

Look at this: https://imgur.com/a/OimyIhJ

It shows you the screen when you enter the "imgur" site. Look at the top (header) left side. There is a green area with a cloud icon and text: New post. Click it.

Than a new window is opened: https://imgur.com/a/wVEylZH

Drag the picture you want to upload into to the dotted area with the giraff picture. After the upload finish, you will get again a screen like this: https://imgur.com/a/OimyIhJ

At the right side there is a black background with a URL address and a button that says "copy". Push the copy or mark the URL address and when marked, use the Ctrl+C to copy.

Than go to the post entry of Audiogon, at the place you want to have the URL placed and use the Ctrl+V to paste the URL address in your post.

I need to see what you did with your DIY endings and the banana plug you used to answer your question. I still stay with my old recommendation to use the Nakamichi plugs:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/8x-Nakamichi-24k-Gold-Plated-Audio-BFA-Banana-Speaker-Plug-Screw-Cable-Wire-/271234103733?epid=1488360768&hash=item3f26cff9b5:g:m4AAAOxyaRZR2UT1

They do excellent contact, they are very easy to work with, they are firm and can get up to 8 AWG wire.

Some of the steady annoying members (Like Mr. Dill and Mr. geoffkait) are not saying much over Mr. khiak's and his dear friends generous posts. Quite obvious I would say. Please try to accept that they have an agenda to keep this thread as low and slow as possible. If it takes off, more and more will try my offered DIY calculated cables, the worse it gets to them.  

Now they cannot climb the tree of no Hi-end cable were replaced by the DIY…(as it really doesn't matter what you call the old cable). Cables cost as much as US $ 8,000.-, US $8,400.- and  US $ 17,000.- are most likely called like that.

The adv. of the expensive replaced cables, do not provide any technical data (Mr. Dill!) but do talking about purity and other semantics that seems they do not deliver much sound quality to the game. What is the VFM of a US $17,000.- that was replaced by a US $100.- DIY cable? Not much...

The bottom line is that those firms, that claim hills and mountains to charge you a fortune, have no idea what speaker cables you need. They also have no idea, what gauge that cable needs to be and why! Believe it or not, that's the truth! The more guys go the path (DIY) the more of that truth will unfold.

They are telling you about all kind of things, like purity, directional, skin effect, cryogenic treatment and more, to charge you that fortune. None is relevant. Trust me on that. They talk about minor to non existing values, at the time they miss the big picture.

This thread, the piling up of happy DIY guy's sharing and the results in their rooms are a testimony that no one can take away from me. Even thou different people say very similar things and all kept the DIY cable over the old ones.