Paul Speltz speaker cables

Hello Bob,

I can only speak for myself hear when I tell you that the Paul Speltz speaker cables are very very good in my system. Perhaps it is the fact that I am using them with his autoformers, I am not sure.

I will tell you that before the Speltz speaker cables, I had Nordost SPM reference then Synergistic Designer Reference and finally Audioquest Dragon 2 which are all well thought of cables.

Just for the heck of it, I bought some of Paul's speaker cables when I purchased the autoformers. They were very inexpensive so I thought why not. Well much to my amazement the Speltz cables were much better than any of the above...so much so that I sold the Dragons and now use the Speltz speaker cables exclusively. They don't look like much but they really do the job for me!!

I have a very revealing system with a Joule OTL and LA150 preamp. I run a pair of Magnepan Tympani 4a's which will reveal any weak spot in a system. I would highly endorse these cables and as travelstead has mentioned, you can send them back if you don't like them so what's to lose here.

Good Luck and Happy Listening!!

The anti-cables are very good - just as good as my Audioquest Volcano cables that cost a lot more. But they weren't any better, either. My only criticism would be that, although they are very small, they are also stiff. I could not get them to smooth out so they were just as unobtrusive, if not more so, than thicker conventional cables that have a jacket. There may be some way to get the kinks out that I am not aware of. Best of luck.

Folks, I'm curious if you built your own, or if you bought them from Paul assembled. If you bought them assembled, I'm curious as to the geometry he applied (ie, are they just just running side by side, are they lightly or tightly twisted, are they wrapped together, etc). I built a pair (since I needed biwires) using Luminous copper spades tightly compression crimped to the bare wire, and then lightly soldered. I have the four conductors spaced about an inch or two apart (alternating negative and positive strands) suspended about three inches off the floor using thin pieces of pine with holes drilled through to create an effect that looks not dissimilar to a pair of high tension electric transmission lines. I think they sound very good, but I do slightly prefer my Goertz MI-2 to the Speltz cables. The Goertz cables sound just a little more dynamic, a bit more extended and are overall slightly more neutral than the Speltz cables. While I know that altering the geometry of the cables will change the sound, once the wire is "formed" in any fashion, it will be difficult to undo any geometric changes. Hence, my question as to how Mr. Speltz supplies the assembled cables. Either way, they are a bargain. Regards,

-R.

The Speltz cables are not connected in any, just two wires per channel and you place them as you see fit. This is for single not bi-wiring.

can anyone give comparison of these to signalcable? i have the anti, but am curious...