Everything Does Seem To Matter

Everything does seem to matter.

I purchased the Townshend Fractal F-1 speaker cables and have been impressed with them. Thanks to millercarbon. BTW, I compared them to many other speaker cables including the “hotly reviewed” Silversmith Fidelium’s.

I had them made unterminated because I thought I already had some very good lockable banana plugs to use. The bananas were the stackable kind and look very similar to the Furutech Fp-202 design. I have always preferred bananas because of the ease of connection. I know, I know, bare wire is the best but it is just too crappy looking, IMHO that is.

So, I don’t really know why, but I just decided to replace them with some WBT-0681 AG spades that I also had on hand. Once connected up, to my surprise, the bass became deeper, the treble more extended, along with a more solid sounding soundstage, and, it seems to be playing louder at the same volume settings? Huh? How can this be?

I was happy with the sound quality of the F-1 cables using the bananas for all this time, I just can’t believe that this much sound quality was left behind.

We use high quality wire, even silver only to terminate them with some cheap brass connectors. So, don’t ignore the last end of the connection.

Still some questions I have:

· Was the Banana’s sound quality inferior because of the use of cheaper metal, or perhaps thinner contact points?

· Do spades generally make better contact than bananas?

· Or, is the WBT design just superior in design.

Everything does seem to matter.

ozzy