On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:00:13PM -0800, Bob Blick wrote:
> > 	We really should have solid silver speaker cables for
> > listening to classical music.  After all, you've got to have a good
> > conductor to make a classical orchestra sound good.
> 
> 
> Speaker cables really do make a difference that most people can hear. An
> easy test you can try is a comparison between solid and stranded wire. Get
> some doorbell wire and compare it to $1 per foot speaker cable.
> 
> On the other hand, anything can be taken to extremes, and I would never
> spend $500 per meter for speaker cable, even if I could afford it.

Damn right, though when I'm a rich and foolish audiophile I'm going to
invest in gleeming silver-plated brass busbars for my speaker setup.
They'll be the size of structual i-beams and farking BOLTED to my wall!
(via hand-made ceramic standoffs of course)

If you're gonna make it foolish at least make it look really cool.


Which reminds me... I got that Jameco 50A 5V power supply someone
mentioned... Works beautifully, and sure enough when I opened it up to
take a look the designers used little 1/8 x 1/4busbars soldered to the
component side to handle the current. Very cool.

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