Audible differences between speaker cables?


I'm a newbie to speaker cable issues. My analytical side says that there shouldn't be much difference from one type or brand of cable to another (given that they are low enough resistance to provide a high damping factor). Nevertheless, there are some strong opinions to the contrary. What audible differences are there from one type of cable to another?
jlambrick
Everyones hearing is different, so maybe the folks who can't tell a difference between cables, just don't have great hearing.
Sugarbrie, I have auditioned and rejected cables in my home because I thought they sounded different from other acceptable cables. But I continue to believe that the differences between competently designed cables (and that's most of them) are trivial. Someone just asked me to consider that the great stereo recordings of the 50's
were made with perfectly ordinary wire. Of course, most recording engineers still use ordinary wire. If ordinary wire damages the original signal, just how does expensive hifi wire repair the signal? (paraphrased without attribution because no permission - and for those who do know the source please keep it to yourselves)

Two continuing arguments made by the wire is wire crowd are that (1) speakers are internally wired with ordinary wire and (2) recording engineers use ordinary wire. I just don't know what to say to either argument.
All I know is that my friends and I definately heard a large improvement (lifting of veils sort of thing) when I switched my Kimber PBJ out with Music Metre Silvers. Blindfold me. Switch between the two. I can tell every time.
Audiophile9 - Great post.
I've posted this before, so I'll be brief. I replaced my 10 ga. Monster Cable that was oxidized with some inexpensive twisted pair speaker wire, nothing fancy, and it is so much brighter that my wife said "what's wrong with the system". It has mellowed out and sounds pretty good now. So the answer is, you may not be able to measure it yet, but your ears, or some ears, can HEAR a difference.


perception lies beyond the acuity of the 5 senses. I believe Ted Williams once remarked he could read the label
on a fastball. How many of us have that ability, yet who would say that it is impossible?

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