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Post Subject: Re: Acoustic sails and overgauged wire.Posted by rdrysdale on: 12/5/2005
Romy, the first time that I noticed that the speaker wires are very important to the sound was when Steve put some very expensive audiophile wires in place of our normal magnet wire. I walked into the room while familiar music was playing and immediately asked Steve what happened to the system, it sounds terrible, like a transistor radio. He showed me the wires, and then changed back to our standards and all was well. The second time was a near disaster at the RMAF show. We were using some top grade all silver heavy single gage wire that was supplied to us, the sound was so bad that we nearly packed up the speakers and went home. It took nearly all night to discover the problem and correct it. Recently I've been trying some different configurations of several strands of magnet wire on a recommendation from a friend, with no positive results. With the larger wires or multi strand wires, our drivers sound very rough, hard edged with no depth to the sound field, and not very good imagining. At the recent VTV show, I had new wires that I made up, and it took about 4 hours or so before they started to sound right. Late Saturday night we changed amplifiers in the system without disturbing the wires and everything sounded great right away.
I will do some experimenting with thin gage siver wires, I made some up, but haven't had time to try them out yet. I think since silver is a better conductor than copper, it should sound the best, so far in other peoples testing and our exposure to it at RMAF this hasn't always been the case.
As far as room treatments go, your walls look mostly to be lined with LP's which do well at stopping reflections, and your sails add the finishing touch.
Rich
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