Hi,
I recently bought an Aragon 2004 from a seller on audiogon and couldn't be more pleased with the sound... Really nice high end. I think the important thing that you mentiones is that you were using lamp cord for speaker wires. With an amp this good you can actually tell the difference between interconnects and speaker wires. I was origionaly running 11 gauge Monster cables and found the sound nasty and confused. I then tried the 14 gauge twisted Monster inwall cables which were better but what really brought everything together was that I spent $15 on a 100 foot roll of Cat 5e wire and made up speaker wires with 6 runs taped together. This is the best speaker wire I've ever tried and the sound couldn't be better for anything I could afford IMHO
I recently bought an Aragon 2004 from a seller on audiogon and couldn't be more pleased with the sound... Really nice high end. I think the important thing that you mentiones is that you were using lamp cord for speaker wires. With an amp this good you can actually tell the difference between interconnects and speaker wires. I was origionaly running 11 gauge Monster cables and found the sound nasty and confused. I then tried the 14 gauge twisted Monster inwall cables which were better but what really brought everything together was that I spent $15 on a 100 foot roll of Cat 5e wire and made up speaker wires with 6 runs taped together. This is the best speaker wire I've ever tried and the sound couldn't be better for anything I could afford IMHO