Bromo wrote:
On 5/3/04 8:05 PM, in article , "TonyP"
wrote:
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
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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.
Marsh P2000T pre amp, Counterpoint SA3 pre amp, Counterpoint SA220 power
amp, Von Schweikert VR4 speakers, Parasound CDP1000 cd player, DAC ART
DI/O, VPI with Grado Reference Platinum cart. Runs were about 8 feet. I
used various interconnects and settled on the inexpensive Canare L4E6S
cables and their F10 connectors. Of course, I have the required box of
MIT's, Monsters, Esoteric, Vampire, Distech and other interconnects I
have collected over the years. What a waste of $$$.
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.....
The only 'different' speaker cable I 'think' I heard a difference in was
MIT with those boxes attached. Can't say they were better or worse
sounding. Just different.