Cables

Cables touch on the true passion of the audiophile hobby. Priced from under $100 to well over $10,000 for a single cable – connecting your system with just the right cable is an art form practiced by nearly every audiophile.

Tweaks and Explanations

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Steven Stone looks at a tweak and wonders how it works…

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Spades, Bananas, Bare Wire, Solder, and Contact Force

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Which is better - Spade lugs, banana plugs, or bare wire for speaker connections?...

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Why Speaker Cables Are More Than You Think They Are

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This Thursday we have the second in Roger Skoff's thought provoking articles about cable and audio. Two words - damping factor......

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Why Better Cables?

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Welcome to the first installment of Audiophile Review’s new irregular thursday column “Industry Voices” where we’ll host articles by high end insiders about audio. Roger Skoff leads off with a mind-blowing piece on cable…

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Do Cables Have an Expiration Date?

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Can a cable's performance degrade over time? Audiophile Review asked Bill Low from AudioQuest, Ray Kimber from Kimber Cable, Karen Sumner...

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Vexing Terminations

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What is the purpose of a speaker wire terminations? Basically a termination should prevent oxidation of the bare cable wire at the...

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Getting Shun-Mooked

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There are some weird things that happen in the world of tweaking. Some seem nonsensical and they are. Others seem nonsensical and they work. This is one of those times where it works.

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Cheap Spring Cleaning Tweaks

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It's easy get carried away with tweaking. Especially when the spring cleaning bug hits and you feel the need to do something. Here are a...

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Crystal Cable Piccolo – The Skinny Solution…

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With all the components that seems to be standard in a modern system, there can be a lot of cables plugging into the back of the...

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Cheap, Cheaper, and Cheapest

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Even in the simplest of equipment or equipment accessories, even at the lowest possible price points, there will be products that are good and bad. Look no further than here for proof of that.

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Interview with Karen Sumner of Transparent Audio

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Jerry Del Colliano, publisher of Home Theater Review, Audiophile Review's parent site, sat down with Karen Sumner, the head of Transparent...

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5 Cable Combos That Won’t Break the Bank

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Cables can be a tricky thing for a lot of audiophiles to wrap their heads around, especially when they cost a pretty penny. Andrew Robinson...

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Audiophile Review Interviews David Salz of WireWorld

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Steven Stone conducted an interview with David Salz of WireWorld. David Salz answers questions about the nature of wire and cable and how it is that he came to do what he does at WireWorld.

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The Inevitability of Cable

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Cables are a variable in any system, an inevitable variable that cannot be avoided, despite what other audiophiles may say. So here is some...

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Lotus Group Announces New Flagship AC Cable

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Cables can make a difference to a system, even a simple AC cable. However, the Avatar II AC cable from the Lotus Group is not just a simple...

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