Speaker Cables to work best with Cyrus 8XP and Monitor Audion RX8's

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Originally Posted by icehockeyboy

I'm with WTC all the way here.

By the way, I had a small chuckle to myself when you mentioned your friends Naim and MF systems, some forum folk don't think too much of either brand, not me, I used to have some MF kit, and thought it was OK, nothing more mind! Just ok. :)

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I guess the quality may well be coming from their analogue sources and speakers as both swear by vinyl and both have speakers worth more than my entire system. LOL

Just a sec Stu, your signature says you are using TQ Black.......so where does that come in?

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Originally Posted by icehockeyboy

Just a sec Stu, your signature says you are using TQ Black.......so where does that come in?

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See post 19 ;)

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Originally Posted by Stu @ M Developments

See post 19 ;)

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Ah!

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Originally Posted by Macca

What can I say - Every 'speaker I ever owned sounded better without the links. Not a tiny fraction of a difference either. I come on the internet and I find many people who have found the same thing.

I re- wired up a friends system a couple of years back - it was a real rats nest round the back so to simplfy things I single wired the speakers with the jumpers in place (they had been bi-wired). A coupel of days later he says to me 'I don't know what you changed but can you come and change it back?'

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No reason at all why gold plated brass bridges shouldn't offer greater contact area than copper stranded cable. We do sometimes prefer a toppier sound over a "flat" one in comparison, but the alternative way I suggested works for me and hasn't stopped Dave selling loads of speakers demo'd that way :)

Anyway, the OP has gone the current fave route, so has hopefully got some bass he hadn't heard before and also a greater dynamic range. Mind you, almost anything does this over SA these days ;)

Dave, twice in this thread you have stated that Monitor Audio's tweeter excites cone break-up in their mid/bass drivers; what makes you think this is the case?

Tweeters are sealed units, they don't vent into the speaker cavity- so thye can't set up pressure waves.

The tweeter domes weigh milligrams- so they can't set up physical resonance.

They beam at all frequencies- so there's no air rpessure effects from the front of the speakers.

I struggle to see how a tweeter could ever effect an associated mid-range drivers break up. Only the crossover can do that if the mid-driver is run too open at the top end. So nothing to do with the tweeter itself and everything to do with bad crossover design and component selection- surely?

A bit of A.T.C.F.U.D. to me....;)

Sorry guys, as a newbie to this particular forum the following two abbreviations don't mean anything to me?

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Originally Posted by DSJR

Mind you, almost anything does this over SA these days ;)

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SA?

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Originally Posted by YNWaN

A bit of A.T.C.F.U.D. to me....;)

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A.T.C.F.U.D ?

Ashley Talks crap- Fear, uncertainty & doubt.

Ashley being Ashley James the marketing mouthpiece from AVI, who would appear to have DSJR's ear at the minute. ;-)