[GTALUG] Linux and Stereo Speaker Cables

[Randy Jonasz]

Thankyou very much for all your responses. I was tempted to lay out $500 for a pair of 10' cables but my research is telling me not to do it. I have read I would be better off with 10 gauge copper wire. 

Randy 

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On Mar 13, 2016, 3:34 PM, at 3:34 PM, phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
>As long as you're not using #30 wire-wrap wire, something like the lamp
>cord (aka zip cord) you can get at the local hardware store, is just
>fine.
>
>I used to write for Audio Scene Magazine, and worked with Floyd Toole
>at
>the National Research Council on loudspeaker evaluation. The theory
>says
>there shouldn't be any improvement with the very expensive Monster
>Cables
>et al, and indeed, there was no observable difference in double blind
>listening tests.
>
>Peter
>
>
>> I know this is a stretch but I do listen to my stereo with my Manjaro
>> laptop
>> connected to a DAC connected to my amplifier.  Could any electrical
>> engineers
>> offer advice about the difference stereo speaker cables make to
>sound?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Randy
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