The truth about speaker wire

[SunnyDaze]

I agree. I'm more into the music than I am what's creating it, as long as it sounds "good".

[Falcon]

No Comment.   

[F1nut]

Jesse, do you think that it'd even be worth swapping out speaker cables in an attempt to hear a difference given my Onkyo / Paradigm setup? It's not exactly a Lightstar driving Snell B's. 

There's no harm in experimenting. 

What are you using now and what, if any, others have you tried?

[Anders]

I'm not sure if you guys know this but I came from a high-end background having worked in alot of the high-end stereo shops that were in Pittsburgh.

I was known as an audiophile who actually had ears.

If you guys are seriously interested in weather wire makes a difference you should be looking for articles in Stereophile and The Absolute Sound.

I'm not up on what sounds good now but I could tell you what was good back in the 90's.

[F1nut]

  I also believe that if I spent $5k, or even $500 for cables, they would sound better to me.

I find that kind of comment troubling. Why would you not simply trust your ears? I mean, I've tried certain cables that cost a lot more than what I currently own and found that I didn't care for them.....for whatever reason, they didn't make the angels sing. There was no way I was going to keep them because of their price tag.

[TNRabbit]

I'm not sure if you guys know this but I came from a high-end background having worked in alot of the high-end stereo shops that were in Pittsburgh.

I was known as an audiophile who actually had ears.

If you guys are seriously interested in WEATHER wire makes a difference you should be looking for articles in Stereophile and The Absolute Sound.

I'm not up on what sounds good now but I could tell you what was good back in the 90's.

You dropped the entire message of your post by 10 points with your misuse of the word WHETHER~

[Anders]

I knew I misspelled it.
Just checking to see if anyone was paying attention.

[Reverend]

The truth?  You can't handle the truth!

[Bunni]

LOL

[Kingman]

Why would you not simply trust your ears?

...and in the simplicity is the answer to all questions. Thank you Jesse! 

[MacGeek]

  I also believe that if I spent $5k, or even $500 for cables, they would sound better to me.


I find that kind of comment troubling. Why would you not simply trust your ears? I mean, I've tried certain cables that cost a lot more than what I currently own and found that I didn't care for them.....for whatever reason, they didn't make the angels sing. There was no way I was going to keep them because of their price tag.

If the change in sound quality was obvious (and worse), my decision would be not to buy expensive cables and I do trust my ears.  Unfortunately, what I hear and what I think I hear mix together when it all hits my brain, which tells me expensive cables should sound better than my 12 guage, decent quality stranded wire set up.  I guess I would always be concerned I am not hearing something that matters.