Ravi and danr, on the question of speaker wire tests, these have been done on occasion in the past. Note that in Roger Russell's article on speaker wire( sundial.net/~rogerr/wire.htm )he describes the 1983 Stereo Review and 1994 Audio tests. I read these back-issues at the library and doubt that they're available online.

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