Do speaker wires matter

I have both the Mirage 3 si and 2 si and Man are they POWER HUNGRY!!.I was in a mid size room and i just could not get them to wake up, the sound was sooo dull and lifeless, i tried three power amps from 150 watts to 200 watts!!! and i still had to get my fix back by going back to my Khorns,i Had Cardas speaker cables on them and still nothing, THAN I PULL OUT THE CROWN STUDIO REFERENCE!!! and my GOD!!!
the walls was PULSATING.they need juice. Michael Jackson's JAM was hitting so HARD my neighbor turned down his music to hear mine, YEAH BOY!!!

You could have probably read @Panzrwagn 's post and deleted all the others and got as much out of the replies.


No your amp is not ideal for your speakers but you said you can barely hear the tweeters with your ears right up against them. Tweeters are normally quite a bit quieter than mids but usually you can easily pick out the highs but need to be close to be sure it's the tweeters.

The speaker wires are not the issue. It is unlikely the amp. As noted they won't go loud but you will lose bass not the highs in a situation like that.

If those tweeters were ferrofluid cooled, it may have dried up. Could also be dry capacitors. Electrolytic caps were common for tweeters even in high end back then.

These would be 83db anechoic. They are bipolar so room response will typically be much better. Apples and oranges.

this Electro-Voice E-V SIX spec sheet

https://products.electrovoice.com/binary/E-V%20Six%20EDS.pdf

18 ga or larger, zip or lamp cord quite satisfactory, and

behind molding or under carpet, 300-ohm TV twin lead