Best Speaker Cables? - Page 6

Monster is notoriously overpriced.

Any cable Best Buy or a similar store sells will perform just as good as Monster.

So if Cardas is Kiton, what does that make Blue Jeans? Canali at a 70% discount?

You don't explain it to GQ.
Teflon in some speaker cables is used as insulation. Eg. in af's beloved Kimber 8TC.
You can buy them for about €4 per meter. You can also buy teflon tubes and make your very own braided cables around a teflon tube and insulated by teflon... for a fraction of the silly prices that af pays (and get at least as good sound quality) ... that way you have money left over for EG shoes.

No, that makes Blue Jeans Kiton K50 at 99% discount.

That would be fun, especially to see af's mental gymnastics of self protection.

I'm just waiting for this thread to be merged with the "These are fake, right" thread.

You're talking about fucking stereo wire. Calm the fuck down.

Young Master Jetfire speaks the truth.

Threads like this restore my faith in humanity.

It's not that simple you need a high pressure, low temperature insulation process and that takes manufacturing and extrusion knowledge and investment. As a result just braiding DIY cable around teflon does not sound nearly as good. I have A/Bed those cables and they don't sound good. Look at the Nordost line, their teflon and monofilament manufacturing process is one that allows those cables to resolve a lot of detail in the music.

Quite true. Monster is the Armani of cable.

Which is the Kiton of cables? By that, I mean to ask which is not what it claims to be.

What is the Berluti of cables?

I think clothing is a difficult comparison as the tech doesn't really change that much. Maybe cars is better...there are some new manufacturing methods such as the Crystal Cable use of gold and the monofilament tech from Nordost.

Nordost would be Ferrari - high performance but really spendy pricing.
Cardas would be Porsche - long history, great performance, fair price.
Kimber might be BMW - Very good performance and decent price.
Blue Jeans might be some of the sporty models of VW - high value per dollar.
Jorma Prime would be Bentley - insane pricing but terrific performance and luxury build.
Harmonic Technology would be Audi - great performance for the dollar, decent tech.
Argentum Acoustics (part of XLO company) might be Spyker but without the price, new brand but exciting sound.
Kubala-Sosna might be Aston Martin - luxury pricing and performance.