For those that are interested, last night I received an order in from Blue Jeans for some new speaker wire (among other things).
Previously, I was using lamp cord terminated with inexpensive screw type banana plugs on my center and surrounds as well as a nicely finished set of wires from Heartland Cables which utilizes a Canare star quad wire on my mains.
Suffice it to say, my son likes to mess with wiring. A lot... As a paranoid audioholic, I wanted something he was less likely to be able to yank out. Further, I've found that on my center speaker, somehow the banana plug could randomly get aligned in such a way as to cause some audible artifacts which required reseating of the plugs to fix. Clearly, something needed to be done
Enter BJC's base 12 gauge speaker wire terminated with their considerably nicer banana plugs. The plugs have a locking feature which means little hands are far less likely to pull them out. I spent about twenty minutes bothering with one set just to test it out and found that yes...they work quite well. The only wires I didn't bother to replace were the Heartlands since well...the techflex looks so nice and those nanners, while not locking, aren't necessarily as easy to yank out either
So what about the sound??? Well let me tell you what, I don't know what the folks at Blue Jeans Cable are up to, but this was quite an upgrade. Bass seems markedly tighter over the 14AWG lamp cord I was using, and my speakers seem considerably less bright (is that why its called lamp cord???). Most important, while my speakers had a somewhat recessed midrange, now it's HELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO here's the mids in all of their buttery smooth goodness!!!
Anyway, if you couldn't tell, that last paragraph was total load of crap, but I do appreciate the locking plugs. I wait with bated breath to see if they're proof against the efforts of a determined one year old.
