Cables, Cables

Very constructive response, Pabelson...without even asking Moganes what his system consists of you already had an answer.

Thank you for your responces. My system is pretty simple. I have Kavent hybrid integrated amp, Rega Jupiter CD player and havily modded Klipsch speakers. I did not forget the jumpers :P Between the both cables system sounds completely different. I can not believe that $70 Home Depot wire can out-do $700 namebrand cable.

You should try the home depot 6 gauge wire: I forgot what it's called, TNN something but it's for high current machinery or something or another.. the wire is made up of many strands of varying thicknesses of solid core pure copper. The wire has a black sheathing and is very directional (the direction of the type on the sheathing is the direction of the signal). This stuff is extremely stiff and difficult to work with but should embarress many high end cables also.

I can easily believe that inexpensive cable can outperform expensive cable. For example, I bought some expensive well known flat cable with spaced wires and put it work replacing some much less expensive, much more ordinary twisted 14 guage audiophile cable. This flat cable produced a balance tilted towards the highs at the expense of the bottom end of the spectrum. Crystal clear, but just, for me at least, tonally unbalanced. In another set up I relocated some equipment and went from 10ft of 12 guage cable to 40 feet of the same cable. Rolled off the highs and the bass became mushy (probably the same thing because often its the high frequency overtones that make bass seem fast or slow). Its a crap shoot re proper cables unless you understand the specific needs of your system, electrically speaking. Sounds like you made a good connection with the HD cables, lots of other folks have.

Moganes, did you connect the speaker cables to the top terminals? Or whatever the mid-high terminals are on your speakers, that's where the speaker cables should be connected to. In case you hooked up the speaker cables to a woofer terminal, your lifeless sound may be a product of the jumpers providing signal to mid-highs and not the speaker cable. Take a look.