Looking for really fine cables at really low price

For those wanting to try the Duelund wire as interconnect, I suggest waiting until the new small gauge Duelund wire is available early next year.  It should have greater potential than the 16g.  

I have posted a few times that my experiences with WE wire as speaker cable were not successful.  I reached the same conclusion with the Duelund 16g wires.  While the Duelund is clearly better than the WE, it still falls short of what I consider acceptable in terms of resolution, tonal balance and micro-dynamics.  

I decided to give the Duelund a final chance by trying it with Furutech spades rather than with bare ends.  If this causes me to change my opinion on the Duelund, I will post a follow-up comment.  I just ordered the spades so I will take me a couple weeks.

Salectric,
you have been the minority view all throughout the WE16ga and Duelund DCA16ga reviews which generally get rave reviews overwhelmingly. I can only speak for myself, and I find these cables and interconnect to be wonderful.  As the audiophile community is fond of saying, "YMMV"; I encourage audiophiles looking for really excellent cables at a lower price to give them a try. Jeff Day, Jack Roberts (The Beatnik of Dagogo) chose them over $15,000 High Fidelity cables in his system, Jim Smith (guru of "how to get better sound") plus many more credible audiophiles apparently really like this wire. Read Jeff Day review in this month's Positive-feedback. Best, Rob

Rob, you're right, I have been the minority view throughout.  But I find it interesting that my complaints about the WE16 are now acknowledged as the areas where the Duelund improved on the WE.  The majority apparently didn't hear these limitations until they heard the Duelunds.  

My opinion has been the same all along: the WE and Duelund are great values but they are not world-beaters as some people claim.  And my opinion is based on what I hear with my own ears, not what some other hobbyist says on his blog.  Magazine reviewers, ezine writers and bloggers serve a function in that they can introduce others to products they might not hear about otherwise, but when it comes to drawing conclusions about how something sounds I only trust my own ears.

Well the Duelund 16ga is a world beater as an IC.....in my rig. I have not tried it as speaker cable. The WE10ga makes world class speaker cable in my rig. I like it much better than the WE16.  Better tone and body for sure. 

Always system dependent. A world beater in one system may be just OK in another. That happens with all manner of wire and gear. I think we all get that. 

I love the Duelund 16ga as IC wire! Perfect in my system. 

Salectric,

I forget what you are using for speaker cables. Curious what it is? Thanks.