The Best Speaker Cable I've Used

I should be more detailed with myself. I'm not using it at the moment. I was using the 6mm version a couple years ago. Should have just kept it.

But I'm aiming to buy the 4mm version soon.

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The UP-LCOFC royally piddled all over the Blue when I reviewed it a couple of years ago for Hifi Pig.

Bass was hugely better as was overall clarity.

My own "best ever" speaker cable was TQ Ultra Black which I would love to own.

Very happy with my speaker cables.

They are big, difficult to manoeuvre and look like snakes are crossing my front room but they sound better than anything else I've tried, including some very expensive Chord Cables, TQ cables (green & blue) and a few other DIY attempts I made before using this cable for my Spotfire Speaker cable.

A couple of guys here use it too. They seem happy lol

Have VD Blue in my second system and I really don't like it. Toppy in my opinion, but whatever works for you!

Surely the best speaker cable is the same as that inside your speakers?
Anything else is just superfluous?

Does it? Of all the speaker cable I have tried, there has not been a massive difference.

Go active, people.

You know it makes sense.

IMEthe partnering equipment can be a big factor. I’m in no way suggesting the partnering gear is either better or worse if there are or aren’t differences with cables, because I don’t know. All I’m saying is that it appears to be gear dependent.

Maybe some people are more sensitive to the sort of changes speaker cable makes. For me it’s often made a bigger difference than changing amps.

Interconnects are passing  a much lower level signal and mains cables are not in the signal path at all.

You can get weird effects from cables so it isn't all bollox. The combination of the Spotfire interconnects and NVA LS5 speaker cable gives a weird distortion effect in the bass. That was true both on my set-up and Ollies. If that can happen as a result of cables then there's no doubt that something is going on beyond what the textbook says. But I'd agree most of the time swapping cables has either no effect or a very slight one. 

Dunno about Ultra Black, but Ultra high inductance to slug the hf is more like it I suspect... Take off hf brilliance and you*sometimes/often* hear it as better or meatier bass. Kimber tended to do the opposite with some of their lower cables, the extra ringing up top due to the high capacitance made the bass sound leaner to us.

All users of deluxe TQ cables rave about the bass, so hopefully I'm not wrong. I'm sure it'snot like some of the VDH 'carbon' cables that seemed to level out the highs so much all the 'expression' went away - to be fair,m my recollection of The Wind speaker cables weren't like that, but some of the carbon based interconnects definitely blanded it all out to me.

i always had reservations about mega-strand cables like that particular Van Damme one BUT... I was stunned how sensibly good the Linn K10 was and it's a 2,5mm mega-strand (from the far east?) in a fig-8 form and the generic type has a red stripe along one conductor for polarity. It seems to be copper rather then copper plated and you could seriously use it with anything! the mark Grant VD cable appears to be similar but with a web between to add a 'little' inductance (I do wish I knew how these cable constructions actually and objectively affect an amp's performance, but I don't). Maybe a fully stable amp that's not been hobbled to be safe into any load is immune?

I'm sticking with my Transparent Audio 'Musichord'.

I have two sets, 3.0m and 5.0m and if I recall, they stand me in at around £200. They sound as good or better than any other speaker cables I've tried and that's a lot.

It's not hefty stuff and could pass as strimmer cable, making it easy to route and move about. I will not be parting with these.

Nope because I hear speaker cable differences with both Krells. The KSA50s was not keen at all on Chord Odyssey 2.  Although both seem to be fine with generic 79 strand with cheapo connectors.