If you want a brighter cable, this could be an option, $40 - $50 for 5ft pair.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003595877080.html (Spades)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003695409218.html (Banana lock)
Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience?
I’m currently running some entry Kimber Kable speaker cables and looking at possibly upgrading. In my research I’ve come across some “budget” options on eBay. I assume they’re not great but curious if anyone has any experience with some “no-name” or “budget” cables?
Thoughts on these?
Thanks!
The main problem with any cable, from the poorest to the most expensive, is the connectors. I think the fewer there are, the better. It is useless to buy a superconducting cable if there is a tin section given by the soldering to the commander and a subsequent mechanical contact (even if screwed tightly), and a second mechanical contact of the connector in the pot holder of the speaker. Let's not forget that we often have the same connector on the amplifier side too (I would avoid it; better the stripped and inserted wires). Same story in the connectors of the signal cables ... in the old turntables in fact to limit the problem by 50% the connectors were soldered directly to the internal board of the platter and came out in addition to the ground, two cables with their respective connectors on one side only ( when things were done wisely). A gold or silver cable between two tin soldered and screwed connectors could visually represent a six lane highway where cars are free electrons to run at full speed, but this fast-flowing artery begins and ends with a narrow lane. countryside, dirt road. Another example, perhaps even more representative, could be that of a city with a sewage system made up of enormous pipes, but near the purifier, where everything flows together, the main drain pipe is squeezed into a coca-cola straw. It goes without saying that the entire sewer system would have the performance of a coca-cola straw. With this I do not mean that the Tin-Silver solder is such an exaggerated bottleneck, but certainly a solder of this type and the two mechanical contacts to follow (all for each connector), are already an obstacle for the flow of electrons. that arrive shipped by a simple cable of good copper, tin or Tin-Silver that is and the mechanical contacts are represented by the straw. So if I used a gold cable ..... platinum ... or a cable of a new material, the one that brings Superman from intergalactic space, costing one hundred thousand dollars per centimeter ..... absolutely nothing changes. , the maximum performance is always the straw. Save your money .... and where you can strip the wires and insert them the old fashioned way; if you want the best, weld them directly inside .... IT WORKS BETTER. Ohm's law says it ..... but unfortunately it's full of outlaws ... hahahaha |
A cable, by physical definition, has the task of carrying an electrical signal through the movement of negative charges called free electrons, in our case, from the source (e.g. CD player, turntable etc.) to the user (e.g. Amplifier etc.) for SIGNAL CABLES; So in our case, the flow of electrons carrying the musical information must start from a point A and then arrive at a point B, trying to meet as little resistance as possible. |
Duelund 16awg is all you need. https://hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/more-duelund-fun-this-time-speaker-cable.3156/
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