This is one beautifully designed speaker cord

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NeoPTLD

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http://www.audioquest.com/pdfs/earth_feature/everest.pdf

Such an elaborate design and look how much aesthetic touch its got on the exterior.

Hundreds of dollars on a piece of cord will buy you the psychologically induced high quality audio that is probably physically the same as the sound you get from using 8 AWG commercial wiring wires you can buy from electrical supply houses.
 
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You made me clicky on the pdf.
Now I gotta go delete my ebooks from my documents.
Again!
:|
 
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The Perfect Spiral Innercore is consecutively wrapped around the Inner Thighs of Your Momma Conductive Shielding. By taking extraordinary steps that other manufacturers do not, we are able to isolate Your Girlfriend's Dielectric Ass from the Outer Man's Otherworldly Phallic Conductor."
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That's what it might as well say. Want to know what the PERFECT speaker cable is?

Right here baby!! $38 for a 100-foot roll.

This is what I use in my HT. :cool:
 
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BTW for those too lazy to read the thread I posted to that bungie stuff is called "techflex." It's INCREDIBLY useful to making ugly wires pretty :) Suprised all the case-modders out there haven't gotten word (yet) . . .
 
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Originally posted by: myusername
You made me clicky on the pdf.
Now I gotta go delete my ebooks from my documents.
Again!
:|
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stfu noob ;p
it says everest.pdf right there and u should always hover the mouse over the link and read it :beer:
 
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I make my own speaker cable.. Well I make it with my brother.. He is a sound engineer, he runs a small recording studio and is a god at fixing stuff and making stuff.

We have run all sorts of tests, the quality of our cable owns Acoustic Researches, and wrecks MonsterCable.
 
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Originally posted by: MichaelD
The Perfect Spiral Innercore is consecutively wrapped around the Inner Thighs of Your Momma Conductive Shielding. By taking extraordinary steps that other manufacturers do not, we are able to isolate Your Girlfriend's Dielectric Ass from the Outer Man's Otherworldly Phallic Conductor."
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That's what it might as well say. Want to know what the PERFECT speaker cable is?

Right here baby!! $38 for a 100-foot roll.

This is what I use in my HT. :cool:
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you know, they should REALLY change their domain to parts-express.com or parts_express.com
 
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it's not a high volume product. there are $25k speakers, and that's the wire to go with them. A Lexus LS430 is a better car than any old-gen Bentley, but the Bentley's cost $200k. Doesn't mean that they didn't sell a ton of them anyways.
 
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NeoPTLD

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
it's not a high volume product. there are $25k speakers, and that's the wire to go with them. A Lexus LS430 is a better car than any old-gen Bentley, but the Bentley's cost $200k. Doesn't mean that they didn't sell a ton of them anyways.
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You're comparing an apple to an orange.

It's well understood that Bentley is a status symbol as well as the aesthetic pleasure. That's not the argument they use to try to sell those snake oil cords.
 
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Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

It's well understood that Bentley is a status symbol as well as the aesthetic pleasure. That's not the argument they use to try to sell those snake oil cords.
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Maybe it doesn't say that in the brochure, but I don't imagine that the Bentley brochures are saying "buy this because it's a status symbol" either. People (myself included) get stereo equipment because of the sound, but also because it looks cool and because it's a status symbol. I've got some pieces that I have pretty much just for the last two, like the Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck and, for that matter, the one Nakamichi made where the front pops out and flips the cassette over.

I do have several sets of absurdly high-end speaker cable and interconnects, and I've also got a few that I've put together myself. I've made some cool-looking cables with ordinary components and people love 'em in a/b tests, and then there's example of engineering overkill (really nothing more exotic than welding wire...though I really should have bi-wired these puppies).
 
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On audioholics.com, they have analysis of many different cable and the high end(high end on the price scale i mean) cable manufacture makes a claim that their cable have high fidelity into MHz range. They're not selling RF cables. Performance in hundreds of KHz to MHz doesn't matter whatsoever. That's comparable to claiming my windshield wiper fluid hoses are rated for 2,500 psi.

Trygve, ever wondered what internal wiring would look like on the speaker and the amplifier below it? :D
 
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Can someone extract the image from the pdf? Adobe is for crazy people who download words :| *shakes fist*
 
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Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Trygve, ever wondered what internal wiring would look like on the speaker and the amplifier below it? :D
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I've never taken my Acoustic Energy AE1s apart, but I do tend to pop open amplifiers and other electronics just to check out the design (and, of course, I've designed and built my share of audio equipment over the years, too). Knowing what lurks under the hood is part of what makes high-end cables (especially audiophile power cords) so entertaining.
 
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Originally posted by: Trygve
Originally posted by: NeoPTLD

Trygve, ever wondered what internal wiring would look like on the speaker and the amplifier below it? :D
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I've never taken my Acoustic Energy AE1s apart, but I do tend to pop open amplifiers and other electronics just to check out the design (and, of course, I've designed and built my share of audio equipment over the years, too). Knowing what lurks under the hood is part of what makes high-end cables (especially audiophile power cords) so entertaining.
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Yep, because even the most expensive McIntosh amplifiers are internally wired with plain old wire. They use the correct gauge to carry whatever current that particular wire needs to, but still, it's plain old wire.
 
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NeoPTLD

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Originally posted by: Trygve
Knowing what lurks under the hood is part of what makes high-end cables (especially audiophile power cords) so entertaining.
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2 1/2 ft of wowzer power cord and omg so expensive outlet at the end of 40 ft of 14 AWG Romex isn't going to make a difference ;)
 
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Originally posted by: NeoPTLD
Originally posted by: Trygve
Knowing what lurks under the hood is part of what makes high-end cables (especially audiophile power cords) so entertaining.
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2 1/2 ft of wowzer power cord and omg so expensive outlet at the end of 40 ft of 14 AWG Romex isn't going to make a difference ;)
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*ding!* Teh Winnar!!! What's important is the ability to transfer all the power that can get thru the wiring and outlets into the equipment!!!
 
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Originally posted by: Pathogen03
I make my own speaker cable.. Well I make it with my brother.. He is a sound engineer, he runs a small recording studio and is a god at fixing stuff and making stuff.

We have run all sorts of tests, the quality of our cable owns Acoustic Researches, and wrecks MonsterCable.
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I would love to hear about these tests, and I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter if possible.
 
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