Don\u2019t even read another sentence of this; it\u2019s a complete and utter waste of your time. Why anyone would listen to another person\u2019s opinion on the sonic attributes of a piece of junk wire, or any wire, or any component for that matter, is completely beyond me. For example, I spend half the day with one finger poking around trying to dislodge wax and other foul debris from my right ear. I spend the other half of the day doing the same in my left ear.<\/p>\n
The most commonly used word in my vocabulary, other than \u2018fuck\u2019, is \u2018what?\u2019<\/p>\n
Yes I\u2019m partly deaf, mostly in the right lug \u2018ole, but the left side gives me gip too.<\/p>\n
So how could I possibly offer a useful opinion on how something sounds?<\/p>\n
Well, the law of averages tells me that there\u2019s another person somewhere on the planet with the same level of hearing disability as mine, the same musical tastes and tastes for sonic presentation, and has a massive $60.00 to invest in a set of speaker wires. Hi bud, nice to meet you, I said HI BUD, NICE TO MEET YOU.<\/p>\n
Sonorans, Alpha-Core Goertz, Audio Insurgents, Purist, Chord, Ixos, AudioQuest and Virtual Dynamics cables have all featured in my system in the last couple years, but none have tickled my cochlea like the Magwires.<\/p>\n
I stole the idea for using Magnet wire from Paul Speltz, and I give him full credit for the discovery and encourage everyone to flock to his website and buy his ‘anti-cables’ for about $60\/set plus shipping (www.anti-cables.com). “Anti-Cables” – I like that, quite catchy, sounds better than magnet wire.<\/p>\n
I was too impatient to wait for Paul to make me a set of his Anti-Cables, so I paid $60 for a 100\u2019 spool and cut my own to length.<\/p>\n
Paul provides you with a professional finish on his cables, your choice of bananas or spade terminations. My take is that there isn\u2019t a termination in existence that improves the sound, they\u2019re for convenience only, and so bare wire is best.<\/p>\n
Using a small file I scraped the lacquer from the ends of each length of wire, a real pain in the arse since with a biwire setup you\u2019ve got 16 ends to scrape and polish. Did I mention that these cables aesthetically are the most minimalist cables you will ever find? Even AC cord or lamp-flex looks more professional than Magwire. Yes, the cable looks pretty ugly but then again so do cables from Purist Audio, and they cost $1000\u2019s more than Magwire.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important for reasons of capacitance and inductance to get the cables separated by distance and off the floor. So using partly opened CD jewel cases I was able to get them about 3″ off the carpet and about 2″ apart, or so.<\/p>\n
Some people suggest it would be better to twist the conductors +\/- together, for some RF cancellation, but that isn\u2019t what Paul recommends so that\u2019s good enough for me.<\/p>\n
Coming right off the back of a $2200 set of Virtual Dynamic Nite II biwires, I was pleasantly surprised at what I heard in the first few hours.<\/p>\n
The VD Nite\u2019s were a big improvement over everything I\u2019d used previously in my system. The Nite\u2019s have a certain amount of energy that never appears as a strident or forward sound, but always underpinned the music with a sense of life and emotion. Their weakest area was in the bass, a little softer and less defined than the Sonoran cables, which are the best I\u2019ve heard in the bass department. The Magwire\u2019s combined the virtues of both Sonoran and VD\u2019s and produce a detailed and dynamic sound with liquid midrange and a taught and extended bass.<\/p>\n
An online Guru of far greater intellect than I could ever muster, was able to describe the sound of the Magwire based on their electrical properties, without ever having heard them. Wow, I stand humbled, mesmerized and in awe of such ability. However, the aforementioned fuck-wit claimed that the sound would be \u2018pleasantly\u2019 rolled-off in the HF area, and generally dull\/lifeless through the rest of the frequency spectrum. That couldn\u2019t be further from what I hear in my system, then again I am deaf, as covered earlier.<\/p>\n
There isn\u2019t a lot of point in digging too deep into my audiophile phrase book for this review. If you can\u2019t take a gamble with $60, then you might as well just forget it.<\/p>\n
Seriously, I find these cables detailed, revealing, reasonably extended at both ends and liquid through the midrange. Sure, they don’t give the nth degree of air and sparkle, but they’re close enough to the best not to have to worry about something being missing. And they add nothing, which is more important IMHO. They stage as well as anything I\u2019ve heard, perhaps image focus isn\u2019t as tight as with the VD Nite, but it\u2019s still pretty good. These are not the master of all trades, but they\u2019re a pretty darn good all-rounder, and for $60.00 what have you got to loose, other than $60.00 ?<\/p>\n
Rooze<\/p>\n
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