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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!

paulgardner
dcmtwowner1979
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@tsushima1 $30,000 speaker cables. Just f'ing wow. I can't even imagine the system these are connected to. I feel like my 14g Monster Cable is junk now.

tsushima1
1,165 posts
 

@dcmtwowner1979 

 

Not mine … Merely an example of how Stupidly priced speaker cable can get 

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wesheadley
162 posts
 

There are no qualitative differences between cables above a certain build and materials price point. $20k cables are a rip-off. Yet you can easily spend hundreds of dollars buying cables that you will not be able to distinguish from cables costing orders of magnitude more. Cables are like wine-- many flavors. They do not improve based upon getting more and more and more expensive.

Want to bet? There are easy experiments to test my assertion.

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holmz
2,328 posts
 

Want to bet? There are easy experiments to test my assertion.

Some links would be useful to post.

toetapaudio
474 posts
 

Cables depend on system matching of course, but cheapish off the reel cables worth looking at would be Jupiter or Dueland, WE copies? Not tried yet but some good reports. Popular with tube supporters.

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