About Audiophile Speaker Cables:

Quality audio cables are an important part of any home theatre design. Speaker cables are often times the single most overlooked part of a sound system. People often buy expensive speakers and amplifiers and then go down to the local harware store and hook up their system with 18 Gauge lamps cord because it is a cheap way to get noise out of your system. Doing this compromises the overall the perfomance of your audio system.

What makes audiophile speaker cables worth spending money on? First there is an improvement in wire size known as gauge. Audiophile speaker cables start at a minimum thickness of 14 Gauge and can be as thick as 4/0 cable (thicker that 6 gauge). The thicker the gauge of wire the less voltage drop across the length of wire and therefore the more wattage your speakers will see coming from the amplifier. Overall you system will be more efficient. Secondly, audiophile speaker cables use oxygen free high strand count wire. There are substantial benefits here to. the use of oxygen free wire contibutes to higher voltage transmission and an overall sound that is richer without picking up additional unwanted noises such as humms and the esssss sounds. High stand wire transmits your amplifier power across many more and finer strands of wire contributing to less signal and voltage loss. Inexpensive 18 gauge hardware store wire might only have 15 strands of copper wire where audiophile 12 gauge wire will have around 165 strands. Since power travels across the surface of the wire the audiophile cable will transmit more signal and voltage.