Geesh guys...I think he got the message the first time about the all caps. We're supposed to be nice to the newbies. It's not until they've been around for a few months before you can start tearing into them.
To answer your question though, it really depends on you. Hearing is as much mental as it is physical. You can truly make yourself hear a difference if you want to badly enough. I'm not saying there won't be a difference. I myself have done a test at home between a length of 12ga copper and some Z1 Reference cables from Monster. I didn't want to hear a difference, and nearly didn't. It was soooooo close in sound to each other that I just don't see the point of paying so much extra for exotic cables.
They look cool, and that's certainly a valid reason for having them. If you're going to have a bunch of wires hanging around behind your system, they might as well look as nice as possible, right?
So depending on a lot of variables, including (but not limited to) 1) your desire to hear a difference, 2) how critical your listening is, and 3) how much interference your standard copper may be picking up that a shielded cable could eliminate, you
may hear a difference - but don't expect a night and day difference. It'll be slight. If you hear a
huge difference, it's likely due to point #1.
Good luck, and don't let these guys give you a hard time. We're a fun bunch around here.
BTW...what brings you to the boards? Seems odd that your very first post is about speaker cable, and not speakers.
