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That was Sam Tellig with the twisted 18ga RatShack solid core

I experimented with it too. Hard to say about the sound, as I had no experience with bling cables. It was kind of sproingy and ungainly to work with.

Then I got a big spool of Stinger brand 12ga multistranded OFC speaker cable, which is soft and flexy and super-easy to solder connectors to. Been using it ever since. Made all my interconnects out of some nice Belden pro microphone coax cable, and terminated them with heavy duty, gold plated brass RCA plugs. Forget the brand, but they were NOT in the WBT price bracket!

Thanks also to Sam, "the audio cheapskate," for turning me on to Adcom, which was a major "high value" brand of the day. Still got my GFA-545, and it's still amping away!

Corey Greenberg was another writer who sought out and reviewed high value products, as well as writing up some cool DIY projects. His irreverent humor was a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stuffy confines of the magazine of the day.

Little Stevie Mejias actually had a column called "The Entry Level," where he focused on real-world affordable products that sounded good. Alas, he went over to the dark side and is now writing ad copy for oily snakes. Nobody since has focused on the entry level of the hobby, even though they all started there themselves.Too focused on fancy toys in the four and five figure price range, I guess. NOT the stuff a young music lover, just discovering that better-than-mass-market quality is possible, is likely to go for.

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