Speaker cable

[Gray]

Chicken feed.

Nordost Odin 2 Speaker Cable - Factory Terminated Pair

Nordost's Odin 2 range is the 'Supreme Reference' for top-of-the-range audiophile equipment. Each component of the Odin 2 range is meticulously crafted to ensure the most performance out of your system. The Odin 2 Speaker cable is designed to ensure the purest audio signal transfer to your...

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Any 2-4mm squared pure copper cable should be good enough for @good_enough 😉

 

[good_enough]

Any 2-4mm squared pure copper cable should be good enough for @good_enough 😉

You have me bang to rights.

 

[MUSICRAFT]

Hello,
Recently acquired a pair B&W 705 Signature speakers (in fabulous datuk finish) and the Rotel RA-1592MKII integrated amplifier.
Now i am looking for speakercables ( bi-wire or full-range with jumper) that would bring the most out of them.
I am thinking about : or ??

Thanks for any advice you can give me

Fwiw, our current store system partly consists of a pair of Michi M8's and a pair of Acoustic Energy AE520's. Speaker cables are basic 500 strand full range btw. If these cables are also good enough for Rotel's best amplification to date then they will be more than good enough for the RA-1592 MK and 705 Signature's.

 

[record_spot]

Mission 751s with QED XT. Think they were about £40 for a 3m pair (discounted stock, so you'd pay more for those normally). They were pre-terminated which saved me a job.

 

[Paul.]

Classic.

Fwiw I went with qed 79 strand to hide in the walls with my current setup. I’ve got some old chord rumour kicking around that’s too short but I can’t really tell the difference.

 

[davidf]

Human hearing is really not all that great.

Why do you believe that? Our hearing is an extremely complex thing, and I feel the capabilities of our hearing is massively underplayed by those that would have you believe it is.

 

[davidf]

Qed silver anniversary xt + silver micro does and micro lacks bass it's thin sounding as i remember

I've never been a fan of QED cables.

 

[davidf]

Fwiw, our current store system partly consists of a pair of Michi M8's and a pair of Acoustic Energy AE520's. Speaker cables are basic 500 strand full range btw. If these cables are also good enough for Rotel's best amplification to date then they will be more than good enough for the RA-1592 MK and 705 Signature's.

It's all about personal opinion. Personally, I'm not keen on huge strand counts, based on my personal experiences.

 

[Revolutions]

Why do you believe that? Our hearing is an extremely complex thing, and I feel the capabilities of our hearing is massively underplayed by those that would have you believe it is.

I never said hearing wasn’t complex. Compared to other mammals, our hearing range & sensitivity is pretty poor. That’s just a physiological fact. We cannot hear the frequencies we cannot hear.

Beyond that, how our brains process data makes humans unreliable witnesses. aka psychoacoustics (as you mentioned already: people who want to hear a difference will hear a difference).

How do you mean that hearing is underplayed- who is doing it, and to what end?

 

[GroeneLeeuw]

Why do you believe that? Our hearing is an extremely complex thing, and I feel the capabilities of our hearing is massively underplayed by those that would have you believe it is.

It´s not your hearing that is complex, it´s your brain!

Do you know when I experience big sound differences? If my mood changes.
Some days, I´m in a good mood and really into listening to music (or a specific piece of music) and it sounds fantastic. A few days later, I try to relive the experience, llisten to the exact same music but, somehow, it doesn´t happen. It sounds different, it doesn´t make feel the same, it doesn´t sound as good.

My set is not emotional.
How could it be? It´s a combination of machines and objects that are designed to work in a certain way and do that always (minus technical issues/defects).

Me, on the other hand, am an emotional being. I don´t function the same everyday, don´t feel the same everyday.

 

[gasolin]

I've never been a fan of QED cables.

I like Qed xt25 in my system (also over micca cable), if there any with better synergy i don't know

Megatest speaker cables – 32 cables listened to and measured!

Following the mega interlink test, we also measured and listened to 32 speaker cables. This to determine whether certain elements we hear are also measurable. T

www.alpha-audio.net

 

[abacus]

I like Qed xt25 in my system (also over micca cable), if there any with better synergy i don't know

Megatest speaker cables – 32 cables listened to and measured!

Following the mega interlink test, we also measured and listened to 32 speaker cables. This to determine whether certain elements we hear are also measurable. T

www.alpha-audio.net

That's going back a bit, I remember the test well, it also confirmed that expensive cable were a con and that a good quality cable that was reasonably priced was all that was needed.
Remember a cable should be totally neutral, if it alters the sound in any way then it is of poor quality, which is one thing manufactures mean when they say how their cables alter the sound. (They just explain it in a way that sounds good when in actual fact it is bad)

Bill

 

[abacus]

Why do you believe that? Our hearing is an extremely complex thing, and I feel the capabilities of our hearing is massively underplayed by those that would have you believe it is.

The senses of biological life forms are easily fooled, this is the reason all external ques have to be removed to get an accurate result. (10 individuals is a bare minimum for a basic test, but you need at least 100 to make the test really relevant (The more people you have the more accurate the results)

Bill

 

[woodbar]

I remember

It´s not your hearing that is complex, it´s your brain!

Do you know when I experience big sound differences? If my mood changes.
Some days, I´m in a good mood and really into listening to music (or a specific piece of music) and it sounds fantastic. A few days later, I try to relive the experience, llisten to the exact same music but, somehow, it doesn´t happen. It sounds different, it doesn´t make feel the same, it doesn´t sound as good.

My set is not emotional.
How could it be? It´s a combination of machines and objects that are designed to work in a certain way and do that always (minus technical issues/defects).

Me, on the other hand, am an emotional being. I don´t function the same everyday, don´t feel the same everyday.

My experience exactly!