Biggest Baddest Audio Cables

if you can find them, look at fim. they are made by winston ma, i think in oregon. they are firehose size and sound wonderful.

Dear cornfedboy, "firehose size" is exactly the metaphor I had in mind...I get giggly just thinking about them...did you say FIM? Is Winston a company? Thanks for the suggestion.

who is fim?

Believe it or not, Monster Cable supposedly made the most expensive speaker cables (I have no idea what they look like), at least that I've ever heard of. They listed for like over $100,000 "per installation". If you don't believe me, check out the 10/99 Audio Buyer's Guide. If you don't want to spend that much, Harmonic Technology Pro-9 are over one inch diameter (not that this is a good indicator of conductor size, it's 9 AWG per pole). I believe the Cardas Golden Cross speaker cables have the largest conductors per pole, at 5.5 AWG. I could be wrong on some of this, but THAT seems very unlikely (as usual)...

We made some speaker cables for test, the pair using four central conductors of "0" awg each side. The outside diameter of each conductor is nearly 4 inches. These were terminated with smaller "flying leads" for the connections. They weigh a ton and certainly don't lack in "finesse"..... Regards, Richard, www.vantageaudio.com