Re: Speaker cable lengths

"Sonnova" <sonnova@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...

> I'm talking about terminating one's speaker cables with decent quality 
> connectors; you know, spade lugs, banana plugs pins for 5-way binding
posts, 
> etc.  AFAIC, good quality, air-tight connections that don't break all
the 
> time coupled with color-coded sleeves over the ends of the wire are the
only 
> thing that commercially made speaker cables bring to the party. What I
was 
> saying is that even then, if one is competent with the required tools
(such 
> as a soldering iron), one can still roll one's own, but if not, the 
> lower-priced cables from people like Monster, Audioquest, etc, might be
a 
> good buy - but certainly NOT for any sound advantage over heavy zip
cord. 

I know what you mean.  If I had more than one piece of equipment 
with old-fashioned screw terminals or changed things around a lot
I might think about tinning my wire ends or dropping a couple of 
bucks for a bag of lugs.