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I suspect that once some people see $8500 cable for $380 they cannot resist and the fact that it is made in China makes whole thing believable. Of course there is also placebo effect - if you believe that it is K2 it will sound like one.

Here is the description that was supposed to be at the picture posted on my system page the Audiogon website cuts at a quotation mark ?

Here are some more pictures of the wire - it's definitely silver plated copper and it appears to have the right geometry and size of conductors a pair of 17 Gauge and a pair of 20 gauge labeled Treble on one side of the wire and a pair of 16 gauge and a pair of 19 gauge conductors on the other side labeled Bass - the conductors measure right sized with a caliper. On each side there are a small gauge unused white wire as well as a naked ground wire that's connected to the black lead on each end. Each side have a foil shield and the 3 filler leads between the conductor leads appears to be cotton or similar thread.

If you read audio quests description, they don't clearly say the k2 wire is solid silver. They talk about a smooth surface when they discuss silver, so maybe it is only supposed to be silver coated.

PBN
How did you determine which plugs went into which inputs on the speaker end of the biwire cables. Supposedly, if they are reversed, where the high frequency ends went into the woofer inputs, you would get a lighter bass and alternatively, if the bass ends went into the treble inputs you would experience a less articulate treble. Is there some sort of marking on the wire that tells you which is which?

Manitunc

The wires are terminated as single wire, the bezels have "Amplifier end" and "Speaker end" Silkscreened on them.

Upon deconstructing the wires the internal wires all have marking on them indicating gauge, intended purpose and direction ie. "17 gauge - treble -> " in this case where they came terminated as a single wire cable all 4 red and black leads are twisted together out of the bezel, covered with a piece of cable flex, then terminated with a banana plug, red and black respectively.

The naked ground wire form both sides of the cable are twisted together then connected to the black terminal. In my setup I suspect that this is not an optimal cable to use as my power amps are fully differential which means that the negative node is not ground but carries signal, the cable seems to be constructed as to suggest that the negative lead is ground.

If you want to try them $ 380 would get them shipped to you :-)

As always, Good listening.

Peter