Does anyone out there have any opinions about the cables they use, MTI Terminator4 in particular. Hope this don't open a can of worms....

There are plenty of opinions on cables that can be found in these forums although generally, most do not subscribe to the 'expensive' cable theories.

Try a general search just for the term "cable" or even "speaker cable" or "interconnects".

I'm afraid you have opened a can of worms, having done so at least twice before myself. :-) The general concensus (at least, the loudest bunch) around here is that cables don't really matter that much, and the money used to buy them is better farmed into speakers or electronics. I tend to this viewpoint, myself, on the basis of several good articles that people posted on the boards here. Try doing a search on Kimbers; it's in the largest of those threads.

Ken

I haven't been able to differentiate between cables no matter what I tried. The only difference I saw was between some old thin oxidised copper wire and proper 12 guage oxygen free wire. Any wire above 12 guage to me sounds the same. I've tried using gold plated Ecose (from a friend) and my ordinary copper wire and seriously found no difference.

Nor did I find any difference between silver plated RCAs and ordinary steel RCAs.

Yeah, I noticed a big difference when I went from twisted together lengths of 18 guage old cable to a continuous strand of 16 gauge Rat Shack semi-premium cable several years ago.... Thinking back, I shouldn't have been surprised.

Hey, I thought we did a pretty good job hand-crimping various lengths of cheapo wire together and sealing the joints with electric tape.

It's not like we had time to invest in cabling the stereo properly, what with all the studying we were doing in college.

C'mom guys! Didn't you read the recent discussion here on the Fermi velocity of free electrons in copper?

Yeah, the electrical tape was pretty good. Ah, the little pinpricks of pain from twisting and retwisting stiff, teeny pieces of copper wire...

Lots of studying. Like, studying how to stay up until the sun came up without knowing it.