>  In an ideal situation, it would be one piece of wire connected directly
 > to the output device on one end and directly to the driver's terminal on
 > the other end, soldered with a good grade of solder to keep down
 > corrosive influences.. Of course, everything in the real world
 > contributes to mess things up, like equipment warrantys and such. Ever
 > notice what crappy the cable is inside those expensive speaker
 > cabinets between the cabinet terminals and the actual speaker that
 > there is the cabinet terminals to the skimpky wire to the speaker
 > terminals, then the speaker terminal has another wire connected to it
 > that goes to the voice coil.. Add to that all of the solder joints and
 > traces that have to be backtracked from the amp output terminals to the
 > output devices themselves and you have a crime in progress if you listen
 > to the wire freaks that can hear massive differences in cables. Most of
 > the time, a wire is just a wire.
       I was pleasantly surprised to find stout OFC cabling in my present 
set of speakers, as well as large-excellent fitting-gold plated spade lugs 
attached to about a two inch length of Monster speaker cable, connecting the 
bi-wire binding posts together. I had auditioned several sets of speakers up 
to that point and they all fit the mold you spoke of; cheapo flimsy wiring 
everywhere within the speaker, yet calling for "excellent quality - large 
diameter premium cables" in the manual or accompanying documentation. For 
what? The glaring weak link was within, as you point out.
       Sometimes there is just so much hype and FUD, it is difficult to pin 
down the simple basics of where we are trying to go and whether a product 
will 
take you there or not.
       That makes evaluating new products extremely difficult for the novice. 
A good example would be the new Bob Carver amp series called "Sunfire" I 
believe. Some reviewers have called it revolutionary and the direction which 
the mainstream will follow. Others have judged it to be smoke and mirrors and 
another left handed swipe at picking the consumers pocket. Through all the 
articles fending off one anothers opinions it became impossible for the 
novice 
like myself to get a basic beat on the design and form an opionion of whether 
the new amps will actually work as advertised.
Cheers, John
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