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In Reply to: RE: 11 AWG AudioQuest FLX/SLiP 14/4 posted by Duster on June 25, 2015 at 18:29:02
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High-capacitance Goertz speaker cable is a different animal.
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I find AudioQuest FLX/SLiP 14/4 to sound musical vs. well-articulated, which is not such a bad thing from a low-budget perspective. I'm running a pair to a set of DIY loudspeakers I'm currently working on. I think the AudioQuest FLX/SLiP 14/4 performs better on the macro-level rather than that of a micro-level such as inner detail and subtle ambient information, but AudioQuest FLX/SLiP 14/4 is an inexpensive product with no particularly unpleasant downside other than potential wishful-thinking from a cost-level point of view. Let me know what you think of it...
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Just about any brand new cable or wire will sound unnatural if not incoherent the very first day it's connected. This is why cable burn-in is discussed so often in Cable Asylum. You should give the new speaker cable at least several days of burn-in before passing final judgement. I can assure you that after many hours of burn-in, the performance of the cable should develop into a decent sounding low-cost speaker cable.
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My advice is based on experience of high-performance cables. While AudioQuest FLX/SLiP 14/4 is not a high-end product, I still find that it benefits from ample burn-in time. The performance of the pair I use in a second system has continued to improve, even after an initial 150 hour burn-in process. YMMV
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I'm glad to know your positive finding. I expect you will be even more pleased with the star quad wiring method after 150 hours of burn-in, when all four conductors are burned-in, as well. It's important to consider a 4-conductor cable requires more burn-in time since there is a more complicated dielectric configuration with slightly higher cable capacitance which tends to require plenty of dielectric burn-in time vs. a simple 2-conductor twisted pair, so be patient...
The AudioQuest FLX/SLiP 14/4 features red, white, black, and green color-coded conductors.
The red & white should be joined together for positive (+), while the black & green are joined together for negative (-).
This is the correct wiring method for a cross connected (star quad) single channel speaker cable.
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