If you’re unboxing your new speakers and setting up your home theater or music system, there’s one thing you should have to make sure you get the best sound quality. High-quality speaker cables make ...
Note: This article was originally published September 23rd, 2005 but we felt it was time for a little update based on some of the new products that surfaced to allegedly fix a non-existant problem.
After almost two years of objectively writing about speaker cables for A/V applications and dispelling a majority of the myths surrounding them we have come to find an audience appreciative of our ...
It is a question as old as stereos: how much do the cables in your system affect the sound? The main problems with assessing cables are psychological. Placebo effect and comparative listening play ...
At least at low frequencies, dynamic loudspeakers present a low resistance load to an amplifier, so it’s important to use heavy gauge wiring for connections. That’s about as far as you can go with ...
It’s hard to assess the often outlandish claims for high-end speaker cables; it can seem a fairy-tale land where sales patter and snake oil combine to lubricate pricing until it climbs to seemingly ...
Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...
Lenbrook America, exclusive U.S. importer of QED, the leading British specialist cable brand, is pleased to announce the introduction by QED Cables of QED Revelation, a completely new, ultra-high ...
The humble aux cable or, more formally, the 3.5mm auxiliary cable, has long been a universal standard for analog audio signals. Aux cables allow you to accomplish such tasks as plugging in your ...
If you're in the market to buy a new HDMI cable, here are a few myths you should stay away from -- especially if you want to ...
This is a pretty silly pet peeve of mine, but I really hate devices that have hardwired cables. One of the most common offenders is subwoofers' power cables; you almost never see one that's removable.