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In Reply to: When Did Audio Cables Become A Component posted by AudioSoul on August 17, 2016 at 15:58:28:
...in the late 1970s, maybe 1978, I bought two pair of Polk Cobra speaker cables for my bi-amped Dahlquist DQ-10 system. They looked very cool (see picture).(Later in the mid-1980s, J. Peter Moncrieff said they were the best cables he had found for the "trebles" even thought they were no longer manufactured.)
I also bought a couple of pair of Fulton's interconnects.
These were the first specialty cables I had heard of or seen.
In about 1979, as co-founder of the Northern CA Audio Society, I met Noel Lee who had started Monster Cable - he was the one who popularized specialty audio cables.
Bruce Brisson was a member of NCAS - he was an audiophile who owned an auto repair shop and made specialty interconnect cables for his friends. They were the best I had heard at the time.
We had a project at NCAS in 1981 to try to discover what made the difference in audio cables so we invited Bruce and some other to help us investigate - we looked a theories, did blind and sighted listening tests and tried to summarize what we could. This resulted in a long article in our quarterly journal in about 1982 or '83.
In the meantime Bruce founded MIT and was working as a consultant for Monster Cable which ended up being very short term - any of monster's cables with three different sized conductors were Bruce's design.
Bruce's MIT MH-350 Music Hose speaker cables became very popular and his interconnects, in "shotgun" format were considered in the mid-1980s to be SOTA by TAS.
Later in about 1980 I bought a pair of Fulton Gold speaker cables - very thick and fairly rigid - friends kidded me I stole them from the Golden Gate bridge.
Then in about 1993, I recall seeing Ray Kimber at a CES with a set of black speaker cables about 4 inches thick everyone was talking about.
These cable manufacturers, particularly the early ones, like Lee, Kimber, Cardas, Bill Low and a few others are rich men today.
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- A little history... - mkuller 21:11:03 08/17/16 (1)
- I had Kimber braided speaker cables in the very early '80s. //nt - MaxwellP 05:23:47 08/18/16 (0)
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