Gold coated brass speaker spades

$100...200 per pair of (*fake) Siltech were too pricey and unnecessary. I use mostly studio grade wires that are a lot cheaper than home-audiophile grades and a lot more sincere.

Well, there it is. Why pay anymore when $20 cables conduct electricity perfectly fine, and I hear stuff emitting from the speakers? If it is good enough to make the light bulb glow, it is good enough for me.

@czarivey Your last post is telling and not even worthy of a response. Suffice it to say your opinion is in the vast minority here, but you enjoy your Mogami and Kimber 8tc cables and whatever power cords — the rest of us know (and hear) better.

+! @soix 

@czarivey saying that the Chinese cables exist only for resale by scammers ignores the good brands that are well made, sound great (like Xangsane) and are not using any other brands name.

to me cable that is over a kilobuck per meter or foot is similar scam as Chinese fake equivalents.

Nordost Odin is another example of scam.

@roxy54 I was talking about Chinese fake equivalents to most high-priced audio wires/cables. While original Nordost Odin was around $8k per meter the Chinese equivalent were sold somewhere in $200 range. It looks like I'm respecting even those who made living on selling fakes, because scamming the scammer is perfectly normal.

@mpomerantz technically direct cable connection to terminal, assuming soldered or crimped end of wire was done, is the best. major speaker cable impact on sound is cable resistance (longer cable - higher impact), loop inductance (closer cable phases are, lesser inductance it has), and capacitance (good amps are less sensitive to it). Additional cable terminal, such as spades or banana plug, does not increase total amp-spkr parasitics much (~0.01% +). the best spk cable improvement can be shortening cable, using amp-mono-blocks closer as possible to spkr etc. I found Kimber 8TC cable (measured and listened to, very low resistance and inductance) the best for my 15ft spkr cabe setup.