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In Reply to: Re: Recommendation may be too strong of a word (long) posted by kavakidd on April 17, 2004 at 13:13:33:
Jon - perhaps then you could comment on any experience you (or any other member for that matter) might have had with Audioquest Hyperlitz Silver in an internally bi-wired 5' Pair. I have used these for several years and have long suspected that they might be the contributor to a sometimes "brittle" sound with forward sounding (especially) female vocals, massed strings and the like. I know Pierre Sprey says anything shorter than 8' sounds worse and that Richard Vandersteen says that internal bi-wiring ameliorates much of the bi-wire advantage.
On a lark, I bought a 50' 14 Ga Home Depot cord, cut it into 4 8' pieces for true bi-wire configuration, wired it direct (bare wire, no spades or bananas) and the results have been, in a word, fantastic. I have listened to everything from Steely Dan (Aja) to my 1971 Steinberg/Boston "Planets", to BS&T to D'Oyly Carte Gilbert & Sullivan's - you name it. In EVERY case, the HD's are better. Not only does it fit much of your description: More powerful bass (still very tuneful) & smoother highs but, the soundstage is both more substantial and more coherent. In an almost contradictory fashion, the details are MORE apparent while remaining more a part of the "whole cloth". Depth at the back corners is greater and vocals, (oh those all-important vocals) are way better whether male or female. I keep telling myself I'll "tire" of these as I often have with other "upgrades" but - so far, the keep getting better.For the record, they sounded great from the get-go, then shitty for a day or so, then better and better.
My system is posted.
Thanks,
Follow Ups:
I thought I had answered your post, apparently, it did not get posted to the board. This happens sometimes, when I am working out of several browser windows at once.All in one bi-wire cables do compromise some of the bi-wiring benefit, so by using separate HD cables, you have upped the ante there.
As for the "minimum length" bussiness, I know of no good reason that this should be a positive, and I can think of a LOT of reasons for things! Could be a lousy amp responding to a short speaker cable in terms of the negative feedback loop, and not enough isolation from HF speaker back EMF, or an RFI antenna length thing in some cases, and Pierre extrapolated to ALL speaker cables on ALL amps.
The more I hear about the HD wire, the more it sounds like it is PE insulated rather than PVC, and this would definitely give a it a leg up over most cheap AC extension cord wires.
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