Re: Audio Innovations silver speaker cable

In article <48ednWXloqk2lqTenZ2dnUVZ8qOdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Glenn
Richards wrote:
> >> Have just upgraded the cable in my second (AV) system from Gale
> >> XL105 to Audio Innovations Silver Ultra Micro for the centre and HF
> >> and Ultra 100 for LF (Gale 4 and Centre 2). To put it bluntly, it's
> >> made a bloody amazing difference!
> > Then you shouldn't have been using telephone wire before.
>
> I wouldn't describe XL105 (105 strand OFC) cable as "telephone wire"...
> it's actually pretty good budget speaker cable.
>
> My point was simply that upgrading from a budget cable to something a
> bit better produced a significant improvement on even a fairly modest
> system, in this case a Yamaha DSP-AX620 with Gale 4/Centre 2 speakers.
>
> And so far by pointing this out, I've been informed that my system "must
> have been wired out of phase" (I can assure you it wasn't!) and that I
> was previously running on "telephone wire"...

Have you considered the possibility that the terminal contacts had worked
loose or become dirty or oxidised over time, so that the simple act of
cutting off the bare copper ends and re-making the contacts would have had
the same effect? I'd suggest that anyone with doubts about the integrity of
their loudspeaker connections should try the cheapest and easiest remedy
first.

Then again, it never ceases to amaze me how the spending of large amounts
of money often seems to intensify the perception of possible changes caused
by whatever the money was spent on, while people other than the one who
spent the money are unable to perceive any change at all.

Rod.

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