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I`m starting to look for another speaker cable. At present using homemade cables.
Any comments on Straightwire: Rhapsody S or Expressivo or Serenade 2 ?
Or comment on Discovery speaker cables? Can`t find their website.
I use tube amplification and hi-eff speakers and favor transparence and dynamics so I don`t need heavy gauge cables.
Rgds Jan
Follow Ups:
Hi, Discovery is still around. Our web site is down right now. Having a new one made up as we speak. Seems our old web master has gotten lost with all our info including pass words. We had to take it down and our new site will be up soon.
And tried others but nothing uniformly better across the board that has made me switch.
Steve
Thanks Steve
I have read good things about Discovery cables
Have been trying to look up their website whiteout any luck. Can you help?
Rgds Jan
Keep me posted- Jan.
Thanks to all for reply's an suggestions.
I use a homemade silvercable build of several 24awg silver wires separately isolated in Teflon tubes. My impression is that the cable is very revealing - draws a clear picture - fairly high resolution. I did consider building a new silvercable with more wires.....
My feeling is that I need a reality check. Have been surfing lots of websites - came across a website (se link) explaining about how the new Oyaide SSC 102 conductor is made. Oyaide have made a new speaker cable named "Across 3000" it`s sold bulk. I have ordered enough to make a 8 foot pair. I might try one more cable.
Any comment on the Oval Plus / Oval Black?
Rgds - Jan
I tried several different speaker cables. The Audience Au24s were quite good. Then, I got some of Bob Crump's silver hoses and never looked back. Great sound and robustly and beautifully crafted. Sadly, Bob is now longer with us and I don't know if TG Audio is still making his designs.
-Rod
Mapleshade
Agree, especially for their transparency and dynamics, which the OP is searching for specifically.
Cory
I would audition ClearDay Shotgun or preferably Double Shotgun. It is a good fit with tubes/high efficiency in my experience.
I would second the clear day cables. Solid core silver with a very big
Sound. I have a tube pre amp and solid state amp and this cable has
stopped me from looking for a new speaker wire.
I'm driving high efficiency speakers with 300B SET monos. An eight foot pair of Clear Day Shotgun cables is working very well in this application.
I use a pair of Clear Day Double Shotgun driving my bass (15" woofers), and 2 sets of Clear Day Singles each driving mid-hi horns, and horn tweeters. Very musical. My search for speaker cables is over. Coach, you and I use the same pre-amp (Mystere) if memory serves me right.
Yes we do Hiendmuse. The Mystere pre amp is the best audio money I've ever spent.
Jan-
a few years ago I spent some time w/ the Straightwire cables in a Rogue Audio and Sonus Faber system. There was excellent synergy for not alot of money. Very enjoyable sound.
Thanks for all reply's!
Fantja which Straightwires did you use?
Rgds Jan
Jan,
the Straightwire speaker cables were in the lower tier/entry level and were "red" in color. The year was 2012.
If you check Stereophile tests speaker response is far from flat on tube amps(simulated speaker load test). The less resistance a tube amp sees the less this variation. The thicker the speaker gauge the less the resistance probably up to pretty thick cables.
You don't need heavy gauge speaker cable ???Your assumption may be questionable from my direct experiences just this month, with 110 db ALTEC A-4 systems running on good SET Type 45 amps.
I typically use triple 12 AWG ( copper stranded, silver plated, teflon coated , Mil Spec ) runs between amp and crossover - for each ploarity, single 12 AWG to tweeter for each polarity, and double 12 AWG to each polarity of each woofer ( four runs of 12 AWG to each woofer driver . )
Have fun.
Jeff Medwin
Edits: 11/09/15
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