Your speaker cable matters! 32 speaker cables tested - with measurements!

Do cables matter? Yes... they do! We measured ánd auditioned 32 speaker cables. We did hear differences ánd we measured differences. Want to know more? Check out the full review:

[dextermorgan]

Getting my popcorn ready for this comment section. 🍿😂

[phantomplastics]

Brilliant work and insights Jaap. Now go take that holiday! I recently bought LHY SW-10 switches and connected everything with the top Finisar SFP units and wow, what an upgrade. Every single digital and analogue cable I change alters the sound clearly, so needs some experimentation.

[qualifierswedenab]

Great work! Really appriciate your efforts to bring some light to the cable discussions ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[robmoores]

Great overview of cables and really fascinating to hear how different types of cables measure and sound.

[royhuijsmans]

Thanks for this huge effort, guys! love to follow your findings. I bought a few jmyears back the Qed xt 40, nothing fancy, but a decent copper cable and it made a huge positive difference. That everyone can hear. Not that the old silver plated was a bad cable. Just did not suit that amp speaker combination.

[joes]

Amazing work. Thank you so much for this! I love you guys!

I'm wondering if you would consider reducing the sample size to maybe just 2 of your favorites and 2 of your least favorites (the most different sounding cables)and doing all those extra phase measurements you mentioned.

[ivanm]

Thank you for all your good work. Sincerely, Ivan

[Fleaurobeat]

Interesting video. I'm glad you mentioned Ricable at 9:27! I use them and love it!

[totalplonker]

To all concerned, thank you for your hard work.

My small 13 x 11.5 ft room might have nine speakers and two musical subwoofers. However, my priority has always been to have an exceptionally quiet room! Hence, after changing all my analogue, digital, and even some power cables multiple times. For my listening room, the shielding of a cable takes priority.

Looking forward to your findings. After a thoroughly deserved holiday, of course

[IrenESorius]

An absolute heroic undertaking, , pfhhhh, , 🤪
Thank you ever so much for your time and work, , 💖🙏💖

[ronaldmcdonald]

Thanks for having the balls to do this!😆 I became convinced 15 years ago that speaker cables make a difference, not when it comes to finesse, but on pure electrical properties and capabilities.
I had the typical name brand 150watt receiver. It played nicely with a lamp cord equivalent wire from Monster. BUT, when I braided up a well known cat5 recipe (of high capacitance) the receiver choked and shutdown within a minute or so. Then I built a high power MOSFET amp. With the Monster wire the sound was decent, but a bit thin. When I put the cat5 on the MOSFET amp the sound was simply spectacular in every category. As I've built better and better equipment over the past decade it becomes easier to address finesse, and to be able to sculpt finer details with my wire choices.

[Grue_ni]

Nice work again! 👍🏻
I am very satisfied with the Kimber 8PR for years now.

[dragocelander]

Thanks for your summary. I’ll check out your paper.

[wahidtrafo]

I see the accuracy with which you share the detailed measurements, the influence of the quality components and the size of the cable, this is a lesson that we really need to take note of, thank you for all the enlightenment.

[matytinman]

In my second audio system, with the computer as a source and my modified KEF Q100 coaxial loudspeakers in near field, I have been using Kimber Kable 8PR since 2012. I could not resist the offer of €7/m from a professional store in Barcelona. I noticed a great improvement in everything compared to normal 2.5mm oxygen-free ones, especially in the bass. I have them finished now with KácSa connectors, which is the Hungarian manufacturer behind Furutech, and much more affordable prices. KáCsa BP-6201BR - BFA.

That GEOMETRY is crucial is well known, no surprise. What also seems to have a lot of influence is the coverage. POLYETHILENE in 8PR and 12PFR. The other geometry to consider is star-quad, but I suspect KK's is the best.

Danny Richie (GR-Research) cables have the same geometry and polyethylene as KK PR. And its cables for the the speakers inside are also POLYETHILENE.

👉Danny Richie: Finally! DIY Audiophile Speaker Cable Kits!

[riccitone]

Outstanding. You are among the rare few that qualitatively and quantitatively measure AND listen, and then even measure again. Thank you for your painstaking, scientific, and comprehensive approach to these tests 🙏

[thinkIndependent]

Good Work!! My personal experience I clip connectors and and go bare wire.

Who knows what connector are made out of .( It's always a negative impact on sound)

Interlinks are connector failure point prone as well.

And proper shields as which in is terminated and how.

[KajottR]

I have had very good experiences with Vovox and DNM reson cables. I bought used speaker cables for 35 euros and RCA cables, also for 35 Euros. Sounds better than Kimber VS!!! Very spectacular! Solid core "bell wire". Thanks for your wonderful videos! Greetings from Bavaria

[sjqideez]

Thank you guys for your work & efforts, it is much appreciated. I hope you have a great break away from all this testing

[FOH]

Shooting that signal down through a freq variant transfer, ... encountering influential reactance of inductance on one side, capacitance on the other, plus voltage drop as a by product, ...
Of course cables impact the signal.

Simply look at a Heyser Spiral to see what the signal is up against.

All that's just the cable!
Add connectors and the potential for additional corruptive influence increases.


Nice work
Much appreciated