[lextek]

Anybody every try this? Seems like a good deal...

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.p...pkr&1065881305

 

[MD1032]

I can't believe he can charge that much for speaker wire! It must be really good stuff!!! Eh, if I was, I'd get some cheap stuff. There's no way it can make that much of a difference.

 

[JMT]

And here I just spent $190 on some lowly Kimbers. I am not worthy.

Bob, how about you take first blood and write a review.

 

[bozebuttons]

Eyeballing the 1.5 meter pair, Must refrain
from clicking on the send email

 

[Eagle_Driver]

Quote:

Originally posted by MD1032 I can't believe he can charge that much for speaker wire! It must be really good stuff!!! Eh, if I was, I'd get some cheap stuff. There's no way it can make that much of a difference.

It depends on which "cheap stuff" you're talking about. If the "cheap stuff" really is extremely thin, 24-gauge speaker wire, then you'll be strangling the speakers' capabilities: Output will be weak, grainy, muffled, harsh and distorted all at once, even at moderate volume levels. On the other hand, if the "cheap stuff" is generic 16-gauge or 14-gauge wire, then the differences between the "cheap stuff" and the esoteric cable are far less clear: Sure, the expensive stuff may sound "better" - but not even two times better, let alone thousands of times better - yet the expensive stuff may cost thousands of times more $$$ than the perfectly fine cheap 14-to-16-gauge stuff.

 

[kuma]

Quote:

Originally posted by lextek Anybody every try this? Seems like a good deal... http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.p...pkr&1065881305

A nice wire.
G5 line of Siltech actually for the first time, does not sound slow. With warm and natural house sound still intact these added pretty good pacing.

Dunno about *good * deal, as with all cables, your ears and system need to decide.

 

[braillediver]

For $10,000 he could have posted a picture?

He'll split shipping cost so it's a bargain.


If you’re going to order the speaker cable you will definitely need a set of these knobs.

http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/Me...roduct_Count=2


I don’t mind living on the fringe but OMG!


Mitch a proud member of “Team Top Ramen”

 

[Sovkiller]

And what about the 2.9% Paypal fee? Of 25,500 is about 739.5 just with this alone, you can get an ultraexpensive champ speaker cable, enough ot satisfy some of the best ears .... LOL

 

[Orpheus]

gees.... $500 for a KNOB? made from wood? damn... did hitler pee on that wood or something?.......... or perhaps Jesus' tear fell on it?

oh...... it's cause it makes things sound $500 better. that's why. ha ha.

 

[MD1032]

Eh, if I had to replace the stock speaker wire that came with my PM4.1's (20 AWG), I'd just make my own wire. First, some wire:

http://www.knukonceptz.com/detail.as...uct_id=KLE16BL

16 AWG. It's an improvement that will still fit in the clips. Then I'd get some gold 1/8" phono plugs from radio shack, measure twice, cut once, solder, tin the ends. Voila. I'm done and I can guarantee it'll be a lot cheaper than monster cable.

 

[Sovkiller]

I got a Carol Command, OFC silver plated studio quality cable from Parts Express, some time ago, I think they now ran out of it, for very cheap, not 20 cents, but relatively cheap, and it was a nice improvement over the megacable from ratshack and monster and the like, IIRC was 12 AWG, very nice indeed, a shame they do not carry it anymore, I just solder four monster bananas and voila!!!!....

 

[princeclassic]

i got some 12g rockford car audio speaker wire for cheap and use that with AR pins and bananas...

 

[viviorunitia4]

did anyone notice that the shipping weight is 28 lbs. ? How could a wire weigh that much

 

[kuma]

Quote:

Originally posted by viviorunitia4 did anyone notice that the shipping weight is 28 lbs. ? How could a wire weigh that much

Proably the sheilding used on the wire inside. Plus Siltech comes with a *nice* box (albeit not as ostentatious as Valhalla wooden box )

This one weighs around 60lbs. total.