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

Dear Professor (b4ic),

I replaced DIY 5 foot 16 AWG silver ladder line.  Have previously used a variety of commercial Helix design, solid flat wire and braided multi-stranded wires insulated and in multiple sleeves.  Alll 12 AWG, 5 to 8 foot length.  Costs ranged from $400 to $2,000.

Link to cable purchased: https://www.ebay.com/itm/25-Foot-1-0-AWG-Gauge-Copper-Wire-Cable-Super-Vu-Tron-Type-W-2000V-Heavy-Du...

Link to terminations: https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-1-0-AWG-Gauge-Gold-Wire-Crimp-Cable-Ring-Terminal-Red-Black-Boots-5-16-Lu...

Don’t know how to send you a picture of assembled cable.  Instructions please.

Best regards

Mr. keppertup

Thank you aging for your sharing.
 
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My two cents on your brave act:

Those were the best $45 (+$12) you ever invested in your audio system or ever spent.

You talk of over $2,000 spent on speaker cables with no much audible benefit. Then spend $45 and : "The results are stunning".

For the record, your cables been improved by X20. I assume that your description of the new sound tells the rest of the story…

For that reason, a silver cable of the same gauge, would add 5.4% over the x20 times you already have. It will be un noticed, but cost way more than $45.-

Thanks in believing me. Many didn't. Some of the none believers, you can find on a  parallel threads, getting banana to keep spreading their outrageous believes.

Just imagine, what you were missing till this thread.

People always under estimated the speaker cables. It was something between getting a wire from the cheapest spool in the shop, or investing big in cables that never delivered.

I wish this change will spread. I hope that audiophiles will realize the truth behind this subject. I regrat all the ignorance, urban legends and tones of money thrown out for absolutely nothing!

Those, who invested big in their system, deserve to enjoy all that goodness. Mostly, because they never did till now!

Many keep upgrading, at a time they have the right sound system but the wrong speaker cable. They keep spending at a time they are only $45 from accomplishment.

I hope that your description will help others to do a step toward the right speaker cable and join the experience. There is little to lose and a lot to gain.

I'm sorry for all those who tried fighting this idea, for no particular reason, rather than give it a descent try.

By the time we gather more impressions, it will be a weak up call for them, to do some changes with their attitude.

 

Be careful with the volume, ribbon tend to clip at high volume. It can also clip your amp.

If you like it loud and live like, try a Klipsch Horn. I own a pair of Forte –II. Nothing I ever heard, can reproduce a drum cession live like. The Forte –II does.

Thanks agin.

Thanks for sharing.  Nice ideas on the terminations.  Love to see pics.  

Can someone provide a link for a reasonably priced crimping tool that can handle 1/0 - 3/0 AWG cable termination? Don’t want to spend hundreds.   

Granny ring,

If you use the terminal ring/spade linked above, you can crimp the terminal with 8” channel locks.  The medal is soft.  Alternatively, Amazon has $15 crimping tools, including one that has a cradle and piston you hit with a hammer.  I suggest you try the channel locks first, allowing one of the tabs on the terminal to overlap the other.  To keep the wire from coming out of the terminal, I bent over few of the strands before crimping.  I achieved a very tight and secure fit.

Good Luck