Posted by Bill Vermillion on 03/16/07 16:25

In article <45f158c9$0$1146$61c65585@un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au>,
P <pnj6@hotmail.com> wrote:
>One of the biggest audio scams there is, right up there with the green "CD
>pen".

>Buy cheap speaker wire and you'll never notice the difference.

Just make sure you use a decently heavy guage. That can make a
big difference in the low-end response.

I gate a Monster Cable saleman a run-around once when he was hyping
speaker cables that had small wires for the HF signals and large
wires for the LF signals.

He was emphasising that - in that the frequencies went down
different wires.

I pushed him on that and he persisted.

So I then said something like "If that's true I can just use these
wires to take them to the speakers and put amps there and not have
to buy a $700 crossover".

At that point he turned to someone else to hype.

And at one time in our studio we did use Monster cable. And we got
it really cheap from a dealer friend.

The >>ONLY<< reason we used it, was that in tests running cables
across the room and in through the ports on the speaker cabinets
- with two 15" Gaus Cetec woofs - we found the installer had used
too small a guage cable and we were loosing low end - as measured
by test equipment.

Since the original wires went through metal conduit it was going to
be hard to get heavy cable through the conduit.

But MC is very very flexible. So we pulled it through the conduit
- with plenty of lubricant - and we pulled out at least another 1/2
ocated on the low end being down only about 2db at 40Hz where
before we were about 3db down just under 50Hz.

As I said above the ONLY reason we used MC was it was the only
cable we could get through the existing conduit. [System was
originally tri-amped, but swapping out the mid-range ??? [forgot
the brand] and put in the TAD drivers - they were broad enough to
be able to go to a bi-amp system. And we had a custom crossover
built so we could have IDENTICAL crossovers on both sides.

Otherwise the manufactured units had screwdriver adjustments and it
would take a lot work with scopes, etc., to things exact.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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