Thinking out of the box here. It might make some defensive


I was thinking, that all the different wire constructions and purities is pointless if they are tied to a connecter. How can the signal carry the purist signal when it has to be compromised by the mercy of a connecter. Why not make a solid wire out of the connecter and use the bare wire for the connecter? Same end result. I’m not an engineer but it seems to me it would sound the same. Right? The end product is only as good as its weakest link. I’m beginning to think speaker cables are too over rated . I switched out my $1500 cables for some 10 gauge $20 copper wire with bare ends and I will say if there was any difference it was slight. I do know my amp doesn’t clip like it used too. And music is louder and more dynamic. I tried some 12 gauge and couldn’t tell any difference from the 10. And yes all the cable lengths were 8 foot. If you want the purist signal then you would have to take the wire and run it right through the speaker and bypass the terminals. So my question to the electrical educated members here is how can the signal arrive intact if it has to be transmitted through a connecter and then to the speaker terminals. It makes me think speaker wire is not all that important. I’m just saying. I don’t mean to be starting a war here.
blueranger
cleeds , you could if I had kept a diary on the thousands of studies I read
before I retired . Perhaps you could google something ?
I used to think wires were just wires. then I decided well maybe a slightly better IC wire was good to have. But powercords? sheesh.
Then I tried making a few powercords out of recommended Belden (all the fancy powercord bulk wire (around now) did not exist then. I realized I could buy a ready made Pangea powercord for less than it cost me to make. So I did. And THAT is when I finally found a bit of wire that I could really hear a repeatable difference in, with the Pangea AC9 in my (then) Forte’ 4a amplifier. (better bass, cleaner bass)
So my closed mind got bent open a little.
And I bought a pile of those powercords. But that is where I stop. No screwing around trying different brands. Enough IS enough.
And I have to say there are a lot of folks who used to think wire is just frickin’ wire, then discovered they also could hear a difference.

I still think ultra premium AC duplex are too far out for me to bother with.. But that is more because I am cheap than anything else.
(I just spent $14,000 on a new pair of speakers, (Magnepan 20.7) but I still pinch pennies when I can. Today avocados were $0.79 each... Whoo hoo.
@blueranger 
You write, "I was thinking, that all the different wire constructions and purities is pointless if they are tied to a connecter."

BINGO!! Now for the extra distance, I suggest, "I was thinking, that all the different wire constructions and purities is pointless if they are tied to a component with inferior internal wire."
"... inferior wire and inferior resistors and inferior caps and op-amps and engineering courtesy of the accounting department. "
I just spent the last three hours listening to a new set of cables from the same maker and the only difference is a change up from 16 gauge to 14 gauge and what a difference it made. Size matters.

I'm done with cables for the long haul.

All the best,
Nonoise