I am running Quad ESL 57s now. I have been switching between two pairs of speaker cables: A 2m pair of Nordost Red Dawn that cost around $1100 new and a pair of 14 AWG solid copper from Amazon that cost $20 for 25'.
I wanted the cheap cable to sound better. I want the $600 I can get from selling the Nordost.
I also don't understand how multi-strand cable can be good. No electronic component uses multi-strand cable internally. You are giving the signal multiple paths. How can this be good?
But the bottom line after 10 hours of AB testing is that the Nordost cable has lower noise floor. It doesn't have more bass (which I've experienced if you use too thin a solid cable) or more highs or anything like that, just lower "noise" and, thus, more musical detail.
What physical property of flat cables causes this?
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Topic - How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - PaulF70 17:44:20 09/10/20 (42)
- Expensive cables causes your wife to leave, that lowers the noise floor. - jtpzenith 21:51:21 09/14/20 (0)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - Duster 21:08:18 09/13/20 (0)
- They don't (nt) - Analog Scott 17:44:48 09/13/20 (0)
- Are they really ? or are they simply more transparent? - bare 09:42:41 09/13/20 (0)
- It all depends - geoffkait 04:12:19 09/13/20 (0)
- Well, Nordost Odin 2 speaker cables cost $40,000/2m, and - Jon L 15:21:50 09/11/20 (1)
- Neither can... - E-Stat 11:38:47 09/12/20 (0)
- If it took 10 hours to know you heard a difference - AudioDwebe 12:49:03 09/11/20 (0)
- Some crazy observations? - David S. 09:25:22 09/11/20 (5)
- RE: Some crazy observations? - PaulF70 09:58:51 09/11/20 (4)
- 'The Red Dawns are better." - David S. 11:10:59 09/11/20 (0)
- RE: Some crazy observations? - rivervalley817 10:49:33 09/11/20 (2)
- RE: Some crazy observations? - Duster 12:05:32 09/11/20 (1)
- RE: Some crazy observations? - rivervalley817 12:08:31 09/11/20 (0)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - Palustris 08:26:07 09/11/20 (2)
- Stranded wire in components - 6bq5 12:01:21 09/11/20 (0)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - PaulF70 09:53:51 09/11/20 (0)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - E-Stat 06:24:19 09/11/20 (21)
- Thank you; Because I was about to answer: "The essential quality of capacitance, is energy storage" - John Marks 18:22:23 09/11/20 (19)
- RE: Thank you; Because I was about to answer: "The essential quality of capacitance, is energy storage" - E-Stat 08:00:04 09/12/20 (18)
- Something seems seriously wrong with your rule-of-thumb... - Steve O 11:50:19 09/12/20 (17)
- RE: Something seems seriously wrong with your rule-of-thumb... - E-Stat 12:27:38 09/12/20 (16)
- I didn't catch the embedded link... - Steve O 13:48:21 09/12/20 (15)
- RE: I didn't catch the embedded link... - E-Stat 13:53:16 09/12/20 (14)
- What happened to the (*DC) part? (nt) - Steve O 14:57:14 09/12/20 (13)
- Kindly quote the reference - E-Stat 15:17:44 09/12/20 (12)
- Advancement begins with imagination (nt) - Steve O 15:29:18 09/12/20 (11)
- Let us know when... - E-Stat 15:55:02 09/12/20 (10)
- RE: Let us know when... - Steve O 19:29:55 09/12/20 (9)
- RE: Let us know when... - E-Stat 07:23:09 09/13/20 (0)
- RE: Let us know when... - rivervalley817 20:11:49 09/12/20 (7)
- Smug ignorance - E-Stat 12:04:46 09/13/20 (3)
- ἐπιφάνεια ! - rivervalley817 12:18:31 09/13/20 (2)
- Glad such is an epiphany for you - E-Stat 12:30:55 09/13/20 (1)
- RE: Glad such is an epiphany for you - rivervalley817 13:05:57 09/13/20 (0)
- OK (nt) - Steve O 20:24:37 09/12/20 (2)
- RE: OK (nt) - rivervalley817 20:30:24 09/12/20 (1)
- RE: OK (nt) - Steve O 21:28:33 09/12/20 (0)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - PaulF70 09:55:08 09/11/20 (0)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - Goober58 20:44:20 09/10/20 (2)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - PaulF70 09:56:41 09/11/20 (1)
- RE: How do speaker cables lower noise floor? - Goober58 12:30:42 09/11/20 (0)