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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?
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daleberlin
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@millercarbon

“To who? Those of us who know have nothing to prove. The onus is not on us to teach, but on you to learn.“


With all due respect, you are the one claiming expensive cables make a difference.  I see nothing that scientifically supports your hypothesis, so if you want me to believe your opinions, prove them.  Point me to real scientific studies that I can’t seem to find.


@cleeds

“I provided you the proof you seek - a very thorough, valid, blind scientific study - just yesterday. It proves the difference.”


Yes, I read the study in June when it came out.  It compares a XLR cable with a RCA cable.  That is not quite the type of comparison study I was looking for.


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jasonbourne52
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+1 stebut - I agree with you! If there are actual  sonic differences between wire it would have been measurable long ago! I blame Noel Lee with his Monster cable for starting this. Before his subjective claims of Monster's superiority everyone used zip cord - and nobody complained! For interconnects it was gray Switchcraft from Radio Shack. Nobody complained! The whole wire business is built upon the unscrupulous preying upon the neurotically obsessed and insecure.
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nonoise
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If anyone needs scientific proof with cables, do the first step with anything scientific and do some direct observations for yourself.

Lots of supposedly scientifically oriented people have gone to great lengths to provide themselves with results that match their beliefs. The internet is littered with them. The naysayers who post here rely on them. It's what trolls do. 

All the best,
Nonoise

pauly
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I don’t quite get the deaf audiophile society folks. Do they actually believe that by telling somebody there is no difference in cables, people are somehow going to "unhear" what they heard?

(That and the fact that they seem to think that the 1.8 GPA they managed to maintain throughout middle school somehow makes them qualified psychologists and ENTs.)

Scientific method states a hypothesis needs be developed to explain an observation. It does not say if you’re too ignorant to develop a suitable hypothesis, the observation is somehow false. There is not a single scientific law or model that says all cables will sound the same. There are thousands of observations over many decades that attest to cables sounding different.

While ignorance is clearly a requirement for membership of the deaf audiophile society, it does not prove all cables sound the same. 
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