glupson, is Don Juan DeMarco a reference?
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WARNING NOTE: Any disc that has been reissued / remastered is as likely as not to be inferior to the original. Friends and I have sent our various versions around without comments and then compared notes. Some of remasters are terrible.
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RE coat hangers - we used solid 10ga THHN vs Monster Pro at AES. Half the listeners could not tell. Some could tell better than 85% of the time. Coat hangers have a different dielectric than THHN, so probably sound different and they’re a bitch to strip ;-)
RE Spades - Unless binding posts are cinched down with a nut driver, they will loosen. That being said, if gear swapping banana’s are quicker. There are locking bananas, but they have a smaller contact area. ALL connectors sound different. The truly commitable solder everything.
RE Luxman speaker cable - shame on them. Parallel conductors increase inductance. Shame on them, they should be twisted. >:0
@geoffkait Some Monster knockers couldn’t tell the difference between cables, tube or solid state amps or absolute polarity. Were you at AES in LA? ~<:-P