willyrover
Super Member
Bare wire, pins, plugs, lugs, spades, even unfolded paper clips stuck into those stupid pioneer speaker connections...
...never heard a lick of difference.
...never heard a lick of difference.
you gotta try coat hangers.Bare wire, pins, plugs, lugs, spades, even unfolded paper clips stuck into those stupid pioneer speaker connections...
...never heard a lick of difference.
you gotta try coat hangers.
All I have are wood and plastic hangers. When I try those the sound is dead quiet.
Yep, me too! We like 'em Nekkid, right?And then you have us bare wire guys .
I use Anti-Cables (basically 12g magnet wire) and hammer the ends flat so they make nice contact with the binding posts.
If concerned about CU oxidation, tin the ends.
How flexible is that stuff?
And then you have us bare wire guys .
Try just tinning the very tip to prevent loose strands and make insertion easy, if threading, or to hold into a loop, if looping. That's what I do, when I feel like it, which I usually don't.I have tried slightly soldering the wires but anymore I prefer to use bare wire with a coating of de oxit.
What is the outside dimension (width) of these? My terminals are closely spaced.
Edit: I don't see this exact model on the Cardas website. It may be 0.471 ?
http://www.cardas.com/content.php?area=oem&pagestring=&content_id=1
After reading this thread, I decided to experiment with my system. Banana jacks on both ends from amp to speaker on one channel, and bare 14g copper wire on the other channel.
Listening in mono, panning from speaker to speaker, I could not hear any difference. I swapped the wires left and right, still no difference. Also swapped amp channels with the same results.
All I can say is that in my system with my ears I cannot hear any difference at all. I'll stick to bananas for the same performance with the added convenience.
Of course anyone may experience all other kinds of results.
But I didn't do bare wire, I did spades. Try it with some quality spades and get back to me.
I think a lot of the times that folks notice an improvement when they swap cables, it's at in part due to having displaced a partially corroded connection.Not for me it isn't. I do most of my swapping when the gear is new.
Yeh, i think drknstrmyknight's supposition may be true some times, but doesn't begin to really explain what causes the audible differences. It reminds me of a post on another forum that suspected the differences were caused by the person's head position changing after getting up to do the swap and then sitting back down. This also has some merit I believe, but also doesn't begin to fully explain IMO.
I think most of the folks who report experiencing audible differences in cables (I'm one of them BTW) are working with some pretty clean/new hardware. I take all my cable connections apart and clean them a few times a year and it does make an audible difference if I've let it go too long, but so does swapping out clean cables for different clean cables on clean connectors.