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Biggest Baddest Audio Cables

Whether they actually sound better or not, I don't really care but I have a fetish for beautifully made, anaconda sized audio cables, especially with unusually well made connectors. Any ideas here especially where 2nd hand is a deep discount would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
cwlondon
homecinematronics
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Anyone remember the Distech Platinum (name only) speaker cable? It was composed of multiple runs of their silver plated, teflon coated cable. Terminated on beefy welding spade type lugs and covered in a nice black snake braid. the cable sounded great!! Nice smooth mids excellent bass a clean extended highs. Its only flaw was maybee a bit of tube like softness or slight midrange blur. At the time it was one of the best avaialble. I still have my 10' pair as do a number of friends. It retailed for $1100. at the time. Dealer was 50% of that.
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audioman58
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Hello To all the I have had the Cerious cables better in some ways but still had a few short comings , the Teo cables are very good but a Ripoff $12k for a pr of speakers cables , give me a break. Audio Magic has spent 5 years and finally he has 4 lines of liquid cables ,Actually I bought the middle of the line Sorcerer
and Jerry at Audio magic says these beat his last years reference pure Silver Clairvoynt cables that is saying a lot at less than half the cost $1k for 1 1m pair of interconnects and $1500 for a 8ft pair of speaker cables is a bargain IMO none of the ringing as with metal cables and no EMI to pickup and very natural sounding, pretty new out there but their Illusions just got a excellent review check out Audio Magics home page for more info.
tbg
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Homecinematronics, I not only had the Distech Platinum but also shotgunned it with multiple runs. I also made power cords out of it. I still have most of it somewhere. I don't think it is competitive anymore.

Audioman58, I also had the Cerious cabling. There were certainly others who disagreed with me, but I liked what I heard and at one time only used their cabling. Then Stealth Indra came along.
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connorjr33
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Not big but bad ass-Basis Audio cables!!!

Not sure why anyone would focus on cable size vs. strictly on quality and performance for the price? The best cables I have ever heard by a long shot seem to be a well kept secret and are the interconnects, power cords, and speaker cables made by Basis Audio. Well known for fantastic turntables people have no idea how fantastic their systems would sound if they have not tried Basis interconnects and speaker cables. I am amazed at the huge leap I obtained when switching my system over to Basis cables and now I can no longer find any faults or weak links in the performance. For the first time I can sit back and simply enjoy the music without driving myself crazy trying to figure out what needs to be changed and what I should try next (you guys know what I mean). I HIGHLY RECOMMEND BASIS AUDIO CABLES!
rockadanny
1,231 posts
 
DCCA - 5" copper foil!!
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