speaker cables

I'll be up front and totally honest here,I am a cable denier.Just so you know where my vote is going. Does it matter if I use zip cord for speaker cables?

Hi Folks, Within the latest speaker-cables yack ("yet another kabels conversation") mostly filled with typical fluff, a rather intriguing piece of data was posted. An ASR member @Balle Clorin presented his old FR (frequency response) measurements of various commercial speaker cables. The...

I would like to build my own speaker cables based on Canare 4S11. Still looking for the parts. However, the BOM contains only the cable itself. I am not sure which heat-shrinks to use, which banana plugs to choose, and so on. Therefore I started this thread to build the final ultimate list of...

I am a little confused as there is a lot of conflicting information about this, do cables for right and left channels need to be the same length? The manual for Revel F226be specifically states that left and right channel speaker cables have to be the same exact legnth. From the manual "• No...

Best hifi cable explanation I've seen. Finely a comprehensive and sane view on cables. This is definetly worth watching regardless of where you stand on this subject.

It seems a not very well known fact that when a speaker is connected to an amplifier the distortion increases. This being due to the speaker presenting a non-linear load to the amp. Here's an article which includes several FFTs demonstrating the kind of distortion increase that occurs with...