WHY CABLES MATTER!

@roxy54 Interesting. As someone posted in the string about material (matter) construction and gauge, playing into conductivity and captaincy I felt it was very relative to the conversation.

Sorry it did not meet your high standards and I did not know you are a moderator here. I will try and keep this in mind, what you think that is. 🤔🤨😏  

The biggest issue in speaker cables, from the point of view of sound quality, is simply conductivity; the lower the resistance of the cable, the lower the contribution of the speaker cable’s resistance to the damping factor, and the flatter the frequency response will be

I didn't see what it contributed to the conversation. In addition to that, you posted it without introduction or comment which seemed strange. 

I have spent a large part of my life (sadly) participating in organized religion with people who have the same mentality as people who say cables matter. Lots of faith, no actual proof. Get back to us when there is some actual blind testing to validate your opinion.

@jeffrey125

I also don’t understand the issue. Since it was in bold, I understood your point was related to BJC’s opinion that low resistance is the main factor affecting speaker cables and that the best way to get there is to increase the wire gauge. This is not an uncommon opinion but some here will probably say there is more to it.

I did find it interesting that BJC discussed resistance/gauge in an advertisement for 12awg cables, which are actually not that large. One of my favorite SCs over here is a full double run of Harmonic Technology Pro 9+, which provides 9awg (x2) of small gauge, individually insulated, solid core, OCC copper wire to each of my bi-wired speaker posts. My other favorites are a double run of 13awg Furutech OCC cables, and a double run of 7awg old stock Western Electric wire. However, all three of those cables, from the 4awg aggregate WE wire (i.e., 7awg x 2) to the 10awg aggregate Furutech wire, seem to offer adequately low resistance, although they do each sound a bit different from the others.

@everyone I always see snake oil comments when it comes to cables. The crazy part is those who make the comments think the rest of us who believe cables make a difference and we are a bunch bumbling idiots that are suckers because we can tell cables make a difference or we have equipment typically more expensive sometimes where the system is transparent enough for us to hear the difference. The thing that puzzles me is that most of us spend a lot of time and resources on our systems.  The majority of us are intelligent enough to make decisions about our systems that are ear pleasing to us.  The arrogance of someone else telling the rest of us that we are suckers that are not hearing what we hear and we need to be told why is the most laughable thing I have seen in my life and this hobby.