Speaker cable manufacturers

Kimber 12TC

Good Listening

Peter

I guess I would ask what musical attributes are you looking for? How do you feel your system is lacking? Are you looking for cables that provide more power and fullness, or cables with more speed and resolution? Also, do you prefer a more immediate presentation, or a more laid back soundstage? Front row or mid hall?

You cannot have it all, no matter what others may say. It's all a matter of balancing the sound to suit your tastes. Some do it with equipment, some do it with cables.

Before we can give you proper directions, we need to know what direction you wish to head in, east or west.

Cheers,
John

JMC,I am currently using Music Hose 750. It is too forward sounding and a tad bright and not as clear/clean as a a QED Silver Genesis that I demoed in my system. The MH is quite old by todays standards. I am looking for more laid back smoother and cleaner sound. I was thinking about the Oval 9 or the Oval Silver 2.

Most of these small cable companies sprouted up as a result of the work and study by Kimber, Audioquest, Tara Labs, Cardas and a few others. I'd stick with those guys if you want resale opportunity at anything close to what you are going to spend to "audition" them.

There are a lot of variables involved in cable selection and what you may ultimately enjoy listening through. You might discover that price has absolutely no bearing on what you like. Add to the mix the fact that some cables take several hundred hours to stablize and reveal their true character and you have a real chore on your hands.

Having tried many, many cables from different companies over the years, I've reached my own conclusions on what I consider to be the "house" sound of the big guys. I suspect that has a lot to do with their cable design theory, whether stranded, solid core, rectangular solid core, golden ratio, spread spectrum technology and so on and so on.

As you progress through their line, you mostly increase the size of the concuctors and that effects their inductance, capacitance and reactance that will impart a signature between the speaker and the amp, in the case of speaker wire.

In my opinion, you really have to listen through a lot of different cables for hundreds of hours to really get a handle on their signatures. If someone isn't willing to do that, and who could blame them, it's really not a very worthwhile expenditure of time and money and more of a roll of the dice on what to pick. And that's just for one amp and speaker combination!

Good luck. Ha!

WyWires...Blue would be in your budget