Posted by Duke on May 26, 2004 at 01:14:30:
In Reply to: Cables for Soundlabs M-1 posted by seadogs1 on May 25, 2004 at 12:02:06:
I've had good results with Magnan and TG Audio cables. Albert Porter uses Purist Audio cables. One of my customers got very good results with Nordost Valhalla - that really is a superb cable despite all the claims of other cables "beating" it (nope, I don't sell Nordost).
In general, you want a cable with very low series inductance, as series inductance will rob the top end of air and life. Also, cables that seek to minimize the "skin effect" seem to work well - I've had customers tell me their amps played louder after they put in a low skin effect speaker cable. I speculate that this is because the Sound Labs are coherent enough to benefit from a cable that has very low time smear, so the dynamic contrast is improved by the unsmeared transients. This is sheer speculation on my part - I'm not engineer enough to effectively argue the point, but I've gotten that feedback more than once.
I really think it's not just a question of "which cables is best", but more like "which cable works best with the rest of my system (especially amplifier) to give me the presentation I want". And I'm sure there are many excellent cables out there that I have no experience with.