As usual I have a totally different take on this, which since it is the only true and correct one you might want to read very carefully. There are precisely ZERO high end speaker cables that are sold with bare wire coming out the ends. ZERO! Why? This is a market segment where people are willing to pay vast sums for even the slightest improvement. If bare wire was better these guys would be all over it! So what if its tacky, ugly, and impractical to have to constantly twist bare wire to get it in the hole- who cares! It sounds better!!!!
BS. It does not sound better. Twisting bare wire and sticking it in a hole, or tightening down the terminals, creates a whole slew of little contact points. One of the man themes of electrical continuity and signal preservation is to eliminate exactly this sort of problem. The best contact enhancer EVER on the market, Total Contact, worked in part precisely because nano particles filled these voids resulting in a huge reduction in nano-arcing. Bare wire is creating a smorgasbord of nano-arcing.
Also, frankly, and this is equally if not maybe even more relevant, bare wires getting twisted and clamped repeatedly tend to break. Everyone with even the slightest clue or common sense knows this. Its simply not a durable long term solution. No one- literally NO ONE!- is going to cut the professionally installed spade or banana lugs off their $5k cable, even if it does sound better (which it does NOT!) simply because its going to ruin the cable. NO ONE, literally not one single person on the whole planet, is going to want my $7500 cable once I've chopped the terminations off. Couldn't give them away.
So the very fact this question is even being asked tells me, and everyone else with any experience, we are talking about a guy with lamp cord. The cable in question is maybe one baby step up from lamp cord. Maybe. And instead of doing the right thing, going out and finding proper cable, he wants to try and cheap out with some idea so nutty we all know it can't possibly work.
That's not even the worst. The worst is we got guys who totally know better hemming and hawing and avoiding coming out and saying what they all know is true, which is what I just said, so go read it again I am outta here.
BS. It does not sound better. Twisting bare wire and sticking it in a hole, or tightening down the terminals, creates a whole slew of little contact points. One of the man themes of electrical continuity and signal preservation is to eliminate exactly this sort of problem. The best contact enhancer EVER on the market, Total Contact, worked in part precisely because nano particles filled these voids resulting in a huge reduction in nano-arcing. Bare wire is creating a smorgasbord of nano-arcing.
Also, frankly, and this is equally if not maybe even more relevant, bare wires getting twisted and clamped repeatedly tend to break. Everyone with even the slightest clue or common sense knows this. Its simply not a durable long term solution. No one- literally NO ONE!- is going to cut the professionally installed spade or banana lugs off their $5k cable, even if it does sound better (which it does NOT!) simply because its going to ruin the cable. NO ONE, literally not one single person on the whole planet, is going to want my $7500 cable once I've chopped the terminations off. Couldn't give them away.
So the very fact this question is even being asked tells me, and everyone else with any experience, we are talking about a guy with lamp cord. The cable in question is maybe one baby step up from lamp cord. Maybe. And instead of doing the right thing, going out and finding proper cable, he wants to try and cheap out with some idea so nutty we all know it can't possibly work.
That's not even the worst. The worst is we got guys who totally know better hemming and hawing and avoiding coming out and saying what they all know is true, which is what I just said, so go read it again I am outta here.