A Different Solution for Cables

sabai---I got Mogami's with XLR's just to use with my subs, where full-range good sound is not necessary. Since I have them anyway, I thought a comparison to Kimber Hero, Silver Streak, KCAG and KCTG would be interesting. Have you seen the video series of Paul McGowan setting up the new PS Audio listening room? In one of them he said he intended to run Mogami balanced ic's from his sources over to the power amps and Infinity IRS speakers. In the next video in the series he told of being inundated with emails from outraged viewers! Also from Bill Low at Audioquest, who offered to make him a nice loom to use instead.

firedrums,

And a cable with other characteristics besides frequency.

bdp24,

I have not seen this video of Paul's. I have not been able to find it yet. Do you have a link?. Paul's company makes some great products. I have his DS DAC and PerfectWave transport and will be upgrading to the new DMP transport eventually. But Paul seems to live in another world at times. One example was his intransigence regarding tube pre-amps -- until Bascom King came along. How could one hold out for so long? This is a mystery to me. And now he wants to use Mogami interconnects? You have to be kidding. I wonder where he has been living for the past 10 years. In a PS Audio cocoon?

I myself do the same with my search for a high quality speaker wire, but at a reasonable price.  I start with a one foot pair of the top of the line MG Audio Design's speaker wires.  Although they have listed a 6 foot pair of them for $4800, they will sell the public a one foot pair for, again, only $900.  These are the very sam spesker wires that Arnie Nudell and Paul McGowen use for their own mono amplifiers.  Anyway, I attach them to my speakers.  Between the MG Audio Design wires and my amplifier I use 18 gage Jenna Lab's own hook up wires.  They go for $6 a foot.  I began with one Jenna Lab hook up wire attached to each of the MG Audio Design speaker wires.  Through experimentation, I now am using 3 of the 18 gage Jenna Lab's 18 gage hook up wires to each MG Audio esign's wires.  That is 12 Jenna Lab'shook up wires total.  I myself needed long runs of speaker wires as my audio gear sits right next to my chair to my right.  Anyway, I am using 18 foot lengts of the jenna Lab's wires for my left speaker-that's 6 individual 18 foot length's of them.  for my right speker I am using 6, 10 foot length's of them.  The total cost comes to $1915 for the equilivant of a 14.5 foot pair of speaker wires.  The end result is basically the equilivant of a 14.5 pair of the top of the line MG Audio Drsign speaker wires. I really works.  I discovered this originally when I had a one foot pair of Shunyata's own top of the line speaker wires and some runs of the Jenna Lab's 18 gage hook up wires.  I could easily demonstrate this speaker wire combination to anyone interested.  I believe that all I would need to do is to play either my Day/Sequerrs FM Studio Tuner or one of my McIntosh MR74 FM tuners to demonstrate my wire solution.  That's all I would need.  Of course with my Oppo 105 or Thorens TD125-Rabco combo it would even be more apparent.  Anyway, anyway interested has the information for free.

alanholvey,

I never had success with wiring my speakers in series, so I find this really interesting. It shows how much can be accomplished in different systems using series wiring.

So funny, I had something else in mind when I first read that you were wiring speakers and components in series.. and it didn't seem electrically possible. This makes way more sense. Though I'm not going to try it for now... Enough other changes need to settle in first.