re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’ve designed and built countless amplifiers and speakers.

None if them contained magic wires.

In the simplest case, the voice coil of most speaker drivers is a fine guage wire wrapped around a former. The idea that cables hundreds of times bigger than the wires in the voice coil is required for the short runs between the amp and speakers is ludicrous.

Yes, you need a wire guage sufficient to handle the amperage between the amp and speakers. But as long as the speaker cables can handle the amperage and have low impedance and conductance, you are golden.

If you look inside even high priced boutique speakers, you won’t find the woo woo cable equivalents.

I’m currently running B&W Nautilus as the mains in my surround sound setup.

But a set of speakers I designed and built can easily exceed their performance.

Raven R-1 true ribbon tweeters. One of the most accurate and lowest distortion tweeters ever made. Downside is they cost $750 apiece 20 years ago. So very pricey.

SEAS 6.5 inch magnesium woofers. Very low distortion drivers. But also pricey.

Cabinets are 1 inch MDF and carefully braced to avoid resonances.

Here are the drivers.

Bottom line:

These speakers will blow away almost all others. But not an inch of magic cables inside.