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Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire?

After listening to many speaker cables, I am listening to basic 14 Gauge, high purity copper speaker wire and find myself shaking my head.  Does this basic speaker wire sound better than cables many times the price?  I am really starting to ponder that question.  I think I am hearing things on my records I never heard before and better balance of sound.  What are your thoughts?
tzh21y
gregp858
30 posts
 
To me it’s all relative to the system! Why would you buy 30k speakers and then want to cheap out on the speaker cable and claim that it doesn’t make a difference! It obviously does or it wouldn’t matter on the quality of wire inside that 30k speaker imho!😎🎶
soix
10,333 posts
 
This 14 gauge wire does not seem to embellish anything.  lol
Why is that funny?

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roxy54
8,203 posts
 
"Expectation bias, if you expect to hear something you will."

Oh gee patrickorlando! Did you make that up all by yourself?
It's been said many times, and it sounds good, but it's not usually true for several reasons, the most important being that cables do sound different, and some better (to a given listener in his system) than others.
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nonoise
11,226 posts
 
This cables all sound the same BS comes up so regularly you can set your clock by it. 
vinylshadow
533 posts
 
I think better speaker cables matter. Maybe not as much as your power cables do.

I just bought Townshend F-1 Fractal speaker cables. Should get here in 2 weeks. Big upgrade from my Straight Wire Crescendo’s.

I was thinking about upgrading my speaker cables for awhile but couldn't pull the trigger as I could differentiate them. But the Fractals are a different ballgame.
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