jetter,
You're probably spot on about manipulating the speaker wire resulting in its breaking. Sometimes I manipulated it at the speaker end and other times at the amp end. For a while I was afraid my MA Gold 300 left speaker was a lemon. But Audience sent my cables back (looks like a new pair). I've reconnected the cables, speakers and amp (Onkyo until the Primare gets repaired) and both speakers play without flaw and sound pretty fantastic.