[Kele]

I have some very old (well, 30 years anyway) RCA cable that still
work... and they are skinny, cheesy, and getting a little gummy.
Every now and then I bust these out to try something. I'm using some
right now while I test a pair of car speaker subs to assist the rear
channels of the home stereo. I'm leaning towards leaving the subs in
so the next thing I'll do is replace the cheesy wires with "better"
ones in the box of collected wires. I use the cheesy wires first
because they slip on and off the jacks easy and their skinniness just
makes them low hassle for experiments. Why do I feel the need to
replace the skinny wires with the turbine tipped variety that fit so
tight it takes several hands to hold everything down while plugging
these in? They're too tight (pain in the butt) and honestly I can't
hear a difference between skinny and turbine tipped. It's all in my
mind this one, and knowing that doesn't make the desire to swap the
wires subside. One thing about the turbine tipped wires is that none
have failed and they are "very old" and have gotten connected/
disconnected, boxed/unboxed, coiled/uncoiled many times. Do you think
my early 80's turbine tipped wires can be considered vintage? Even
though I have heard differences among wires (interconnect, speaker,
power), I feel the change in the sound they impart isn't necessarily
accurate. Sometimes the difference is beneficial so I leave them in
the chain where their "character" seems to help the overall. I do
think the skinny wires and turbine tipped ones actually affect the
sound the least so I feel these are accurate. The ones with character
are obviously more expensive. Some of the expensive ones sound like
the skinny ones (benign) while others have a personality. Shopping
for wires is, I consider, a crap shoot. How you gonna know if the
wire is going to sound neutral or have character? I wonder if it's
not so much the wire itself, but the interaction between components
and the wire that creates the character - like maybe differences in
resistance. This would explain the tester=92s who say there is no
difference between wires. If that's true, then we can't even shop for
wires based on reviews (other's experience) because their components
differ.