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Weird speaker cabling question
On 5/3/04 8:05 PM, in article , "TonyP"
wrote:
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Sat, 01 May 2004 21:30:33 GMT, Bromo wrote:
On 5/1/04 2:11 PM, in article , "TonyP"
wrote:
In addition, get the speaker cable that Quad recommends... Black &
Decker extension cord. Of course, you will have to "mod" it. Cut off the
electrical ends and add your own speaker connectors. Of course, you'll
have to like the color...
To Walker - wire was wire - the new owners use oxygen free, etc. etc
for the
wiring inside the speaker and components themselves now. Previously,
it had
been under a 'wire is wire' philosophy.
Yet another unfortunate case of a fine engineer building the
reputation of a company, and his incompetent son contriving to ruin
it. Now the marketing guys hold sway, and bull**** is the order of the
day. Sad, very sad - but at least they gave us the 988/989!
I have to agree with Stewart here. From what I read, the sound coming
from the Quads at a show in the UK was highly received with great
reviews. And those in attendance wanted to know what speaker cables were
used. If Black&Decker are good enough for the revealing Quads, I would
think that they would be good enough for anything else. I could not tell
the difference between my 20 year old Monster Powerline 2, regular Home
Depot (various gauges) and Audioquest Indigo 2's.
What kind of speaker, what kind of amp, and how long the cables? Just
curious.
I put together some 10 ga. Romex as a speaker cable, and swapped out my
Kimber 4 basic cable for them. The bass seemed beefier and boomier and
seemed to be out of phase with the treble - thought it was weird. I am
willing to chalk it up to my imagination, but it sure seemed to be
different.....
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