Originally Posted by rharv
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... Hmmm ... I guess that will go straight over the head of more than a few.

If it makes you smile; I felt my hair move faintly as it went over mine ..
To me if it sounds better it IS better
Not everyone has the luxury of feeling their hair move laugh

Sounding better to you is all that really matters, other perhaps than cost.

Originally Posted by Matt Finley
I've been to that store! They claim that electrons move faster in the more expensive cable, which gives better sound.
Higher quality cable can be better, particularly with microphone cables and speaker cables, but "faster electrons" is definitely pure hokum. In the case of microphone cables it's usually better screening, tighter twist and less microphony, in speaker cable it's lower impedance, i.e. mostly thicker. Gold flashed/plated connector contacts are sensible. Beyond those things it's pretty much all hype.

Hmm, the speaker cables to my Tannoys are transmission-line cable, which might have a benefit in controlling parasitic capacitance and inductance. They weren't totally crazy money. The fact that they're about 6mm^2 is probably more important.

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