Not the gear. It has to be us. The Horror!

Thanks for being open minded enough to test. I hope others read this and question the doctrine provided by other sites and forums. They may not always be all encompassing as they purport. In this case, Im beginning to think the pliability of the individual strands makes for a better termination with some cables vs others.

We see issues with terminations in the electrical industry using FLIR thermal image scans as part of service maintenance. On the speaker level of power, minor losses at terminations may be a bigger factor than what the cable actually is.... need to test.

Would be interesting to do the test again after doping the termination with conductive compound. Maybe I will mess with this in the future. I usually treat my cables and tighten with linesman pliers. May have made a difference. Not sure. I just did it to never have to mess with again. That red cable was plain awful. Maybe Ox-Guard would prove it is termination related.

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