Marantz 2325 speaker cables

dill: No Chinese speaker cables? So, China can build nuclear weapons, be the first to land on the dark side of the moon, lead the US in 37 out of 44 technologies including nanoscale materials, but can’t make a decent speaker cable? Hmm...

"but can’t make a decent speaker cable?"

- Decent, no doubt, however in my experience speaker wire made in the USA is of higher quality and sounds better.

 dill: Experience is the "key" word.  I have lived in more countries than I can count on two hands and have visited around 35.  No offense to you but making generalizations is very naive. Unless you have been to China or other countries and have purchased and/ or auditioned their cables, you would not really know, would you?  Sure, maybe you have gotten a hold of a Chinese cable that you did not like, but in no way does that validate your statement to stay away from Chinese cables.  You want good cables?  Try some extruded fine silver wire from Taxco (not in the US)!  

"Sure, maybe you have gotten a hold of a Chinese cable that you did not like, but in no way does that validate your statement to stay away from Chinese cables."

- I did not say to stay away from Chinese cables, I said speaker cables or speaker wire from China. If you check my Profile page on AudiogoN you will see I actually use 2 power cords from China in my system. Also have silver speaker and interconnect wire in the system too. (not from China).

- I owned a stereo store from 1985 - 1995 and have heard & sold many many pairs of all types of cables, so I know what to look for when auditioning wire. My go to budget speaker wire for vintage systems is the now discontinued Marshall Sound Runner 10ga. which I use in my garage and my wife's system. I have auditioned several speaker cables and interconnects from China, however I won't be using them in my systems.