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Originally posted by nash
I wasn't sure if this should go here or in the electronics forum, but here goes:
http://www.audioadvisor.com/store/pr...sp?sku=AQGRAS6
Twenty ft of that wire costs more than my receiver. What's the difference among all these brands of speaker wire? I got 50ft of Monster cable for pretty cheap on ebay and they work well. Anyone know the market that these cables are made for? How much for their other equipment would they be willing to pay, I wonder.
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Anything will work well until you hear a good speaker cable. Much in the same way a Taurus is great if its all you've ever known. Till one day you hop in an Audi A8.... then your whole perspective changes. You mind starts to wonder about the music... "I wonder what else is hiding in there?"
Some differences you will find in higher end wires are the purity of the copper, how much copper, whether or not the wires are individually stranded, and whether or not the cable uses networks to lower noise. Cables are not hype. Monster cables are hype. But one needs decent enough equipment to tell any difference.
I'll sneak a little mind blower in at the end too.... and if you think $159 for a pair of 6 ft cables is outlandish... take a look at the
Transparent Opus MM cable. This is quite possibly the best speaker cable ever made. Ever. Ever. So check that out for a while... then take a stab at what it sells for. If you're good enough to find that... ask yourself who they're marketing that to....
(I would kill (without hesitation) for those, by the way...)