What speaker cable made a major difference in the sound quality of your speakers??


I am curious what speaker cables made a big "jaw dropping difference" in the sound quality of your current speakers.  What most impressed you about the difference;  that is, overall musicality, tighter, deeper bass, midrange clarity and soundstage depth, etc.etc. 

Keep the price of the speaker cables chosen or auditioned at  between $800- $1000 or  from  $1000-$1500. Was the cable bought new or used??

  Thank you,   SJ

sunnyjim

Showing 8 responses by toddverrone

@sabai - where did you source your silver cable? I've silver interconnects and connecters.. I'd like to try SCs as well.
@sabai - Interconnects are pure silver with insulation. Connectors for interconnects have insulation, they’re KLEI pure Harmony, so they’re pure silver. I’d need insulation, though. Kids and pets abound in my house.
@rrwolfgram and @wtf - so funny, I’ve been reading that site and a few others like it since @sabai posted about making his own silver cables..

Did you guys use the spaghetti Teflon tubing for insulation? Was it difficult to thread the wire through? Did you use close to the same size tubing or oversized? Thanks in advance.

My main problem is that my speakers need power, so I’ll need something fat, which gets expensive. I’m trying to decide on two possible solutions: either a single run of 10awg then make some jumpers from the same wire, or two runs, one of 12awg to the woofers and one of 14awg to the tweeters and mids. Right now I’m using cat5 diy cables (copper) that have the equivalent of 11awg to the woofers and 13awg to the tweeters and mids. They sound way better than the copper 12awg twisted pair cables they replaced. That makes me think the biwiring solution for the silver cables would sound better, but the copper cat5 could sound better than the copper twisted pair simply because of the larger combined gauge (9awg vs 12awg) instead of the different architecture.

Thoughts..?
@dgarretson .. what is the braided copper for? Is that one of your conductors​? Or are you dividing the ribbons into the pos and neg conductors and using the braided copper as a shield?
Thank you for saving us from this Tom foolery Edward. We've obviously been fooling ourselves for years and just needed you to set us straight. Praise jah!
@edward506 (why does the @ only sometimes work?) - I totally get where you’re coming from. I was sceptical as well, read all the articles saying all that matters is resistance, maybe capacitance.. I bought blue jeans cables and didn’t even bother with power cables. Curiosity eventually got me to at least want to try messing around with cables. No way I was paying crazy cable prices though, so I chose to make my own cables.
My cables now are all DIY. I eventually realized that it was worth spending a little bit of money on the conductors and connectors and exploring different architectures.

Saying cables make a difference doesn’t mean I am advocating dumping tons of cash into a decent set.. there are other options.


Edward- you are completely correct. Having components that play well together, well made speakers that the components can handle and acoustic treatment of the listening room all impact the sound of a system more than exotic cables will, as long as the basic cables are of sufficient gauge and quality. But once all the pieces are in place, cables can help bring out even better sound.


Perfectpathtech - thanks. I was leaning heavily towards Rio grande anyway, so thanks for pushing me the rest of the way..

Imma order the wire this week, I think.