Do speaker wires matter

@stereo5 , not true if your speakers are 6 feet away 😉

OP, you should try that other amp you have.  Its free and would take less than an hour to try.

I would bet more on buying a decent amp and decent speakers.  I am sure speaker wire can make a slight difference, but how much do you spend is another question.  I would think speaker wire under $1,000 would be sufficient.

If you had said the wires were 30 feet long, I’d say, look for wire with relatively low inductance. (High inductance will cause a rolloff of high frequencies and may interact with the speaker and/or amp.) It’s doesn’t have to be expensive -- the Belden wires sold by Blue Jeans Cable measure well in that regard (and others).

b_limo will definitely do that first! Thanks!

Like in a good recipe everything matters....

But some ingredients are so much important than the rest is way less important and you can live without them temporarily or for a great period of time...

Like someone ( Erik_Squires) who know something about speakers just said a couple of posts behind mine : the room acoustic is very important way more than cables... Cables matters but can wait if you have already some good one...

I will mention also that in my experience the other 2 embeddings are more impactful than even the choice of cable... Mechanical controls of vibration and the noise floor of the house and not only of the audio system...

Then dont bother with cable now, choose a not too costly good one, and think about these 3 embeddings or at least about the room acoustic...

No speakers can beat the room were they live, NONE.....


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