Dynamicmad
I just want it to sound good
Built these last night taken from a 6 moons review. I have not done the interconnects. I like them and for the cost and 30 minutes of work you cant go wrong. What is stated about them I find to be true try it for your self.
The 44 cents in the above paragraph header is a humorous allusion to pal Pete's latest underground discovery: a stunningly good set of speaker cables and interconnects that can be had for $7.44 at my local Wal-Mart - and I assume at the one down the street from you too. How good? They have a warm musical balance not unlike Cardas Golden Cross, do lots of space and positively nail the tone. Tone, tone, tone - everywhere there's intensely beautiful tone! They have lots of musically natural detail and decent PRaT too. They do nice tight bass. They actually rank right up there with the best interconnects and speaker cables I've ever heard for overall musicality.
You have to roll your own though. Head on down to Wal-Mart and buy a package of Yard Master Patio Cord for $7.44. It's a 40-foot long extension cord with three 16-gauge wires wrapped in a white covering. Cut the plug ends off, then measure and cut off two 9-foot sections for speaker cables and two 3-foot sections for a pair of interconnects. Strip about an inch of the white covering off the ends of each piece. Inside you'll see three wires: black, green and white. Now strip off about a quarter of an inch of insulation from each end. This is important: to get the best performance so follow my advice exactly. Twist the white and green wires together and put a dab of silver solder on them to keep them from fraying out. Put a dab of silver solder on the black wire too while you're at it. For the speaker cables, once you've done that you're ready to go. Insert the white-green twisted wire ends into the black binding posts on amp and speaker. Then hook the black wire ends into the red terminals. You're done with the speaker cables. If you want to get fancy, you could add some nice banana connectors and shrink-wrap the cable ends but I didn't.
For the interconnects, twist the white and green wires together and stabilize the ends with a dab of silver solder as you did with the speaker cables, then add a dab of silver solder on the black wire for the same reason. I had a spare set of Eichmann Bullet RCA connectors so I used those but you could use anything handy. Solder the black wire to the center pin of the RCA and solder the white-green twisted pair to the ground pin. It makes for a tight fit so exercise a little caution to not shorten ground and pin. You now have a full set of speaker cable and interconnect that rewrites the book on cost versus performance. Okay, I know it seems ridiculous that the WM cable set can kick major fanny but just try it. If your reaction is like everyone else who's heard them, you'll be more than pleasantly surprised.
The 44 cents in the above paragraph header is a humorous allusion to pal Pete's latest underground discovery: a stunningly good set of speaker cables and interconnects that can be had for $7.44 at my local Wal-Mart - and I assume at the one down the street from you too. How good? They have a warm musical balance not unlike Cardas Golden Cross, do lots of space and positively nail the tone. Tone, tone, tone - everywhere there's intensely beautiful tone! They have lots of musically natural detail and decent PRaT too. They do nice tight bass. They actually rank right up there with the best interconnects and speaker cables I've ever heard for overall musicality.
You have to roll your own though. Head on down to Wal-Mart and buy a package of Yard Master Patio Cord for $7.44. It's a 40-foot long extension cord with three 16-gauge wires wrapped in a white covering. Cut the plug ends off, then measure and cut off two 9-foot sections for speaker cables and two 3-foot sections for a pair of interconnects. Strip about an inch of the white covering off the ends of each piece. Inside you'll see three wires: black, green and white. Now strip off about a quarter of an inch of insulation from each end. This is important: to get the best performance so follow my advice exactly. Twist the white and green wires together and put a dab of silver solder on them to keep them from fraying out. Put a dab of silver solder on the black wire too while you're at it. For the speaker cables, once you've done that you're ready to go. Insert the white-green twisted wire ends into the black binding posts on amp and speaker. Then hook the black wire ends into the red terminals. You're done with the speaker cables. If you want to get fancy, you could add some nice banana connectors and shrink-wrap the cable ends but I didn't.
For the interconnects, twist the white and green wires together and stabilize the ends with a dab of silver solder as you did with the speaker cables, then add a dab of silver solder on the black wire for the same reason. I had a spare set of Eichmann Bullet RCA connectors so I used those but you could use anything handy. Solder the black wire to the center pin of the RCA and solder the white-green twisted pair to the ground pin. It makes for a tight fit so exercise a little caution to not shorten ground and pin. You now have a full set of speaker cable and interconnect that rewrites the book on cost versus performance. Okay, I know it seems ridiculous that the WM cable set can kick major fanny but just try it. If your reaction is like everyone else who's heard them, you'll be more than pleasantly surprised.
