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Internal Speaker Cabling

What is the use of Highend speaker cables,when the quality of our speakers internal cabling is inferior than the speaker cables used to connect our amps to our speakers.I guess what I am asking is should the internal speaker cable in most if not all speaker brands be upgraded to a similar highend quality.When for example most audiophiles purchase cables in the thousand of dallars price range.I doubt that speaker manufacturers are even spending hundreds of dollars on internal wire!Please let me know your thoughts Thanks.
ultrasonic01
ultrasonic01 OP
2 posts
 
Can't anyone give an oppinion on this!
jastremsky
2 posts
 
Absolutely. I am presently getting my KEF 104/2 upgraded; silver/copper MIL spec garde wire from a U.K. source for the mids/high and heavier gauge pure copper wire for the twin woofers. This company in Montreal called FixAudio are doing the work for me. He refurbished a pair of KEF 105's of his and boy what a significant improvement! I am also upgrading the caps and some resistors.
Regards,
Michael
timrhu
2,779 posts
 
I have two sets of speakers, one is internaly wired with DH Labs Silver Sonic cable and the other uses Tara Labs RSC. I also have an inexpensive pair of Acoustic Energy speakers that I put in Canare cable. It makes little sense to run 10 or 12 gauge cables into speakers with 16 or 18 gauge internal cables.
The same thing can exist in amps where 18 or 16 gauge wire is used to connect output section to speaker connectors. Changing these wires is a great DIY project.
pops
2,274 posts
 
Well I think Thiel uses straightwire, Eggleston Works uses transparant. I think most use quality wire...what we buy on the open market is aimed at a target audience of audio and videophiles. If there wasn't a need/market we wouldn't have the equivilent of a small mortgage in wire, IMHO.
hpims
129 posts
 
Here's a good one to ponder...

What to do about the 130 feet of fine wire in your tweeter, midrange and woofer coils!!

And you were worried about a few feet between the drivers??

YIKES!!!!
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