About cables, wires ... what squeaks in the wires

Surely anyone interested in the subject of good sound will sooner or later come to the subject of cables. Yes…. pros and cons ... etc. You hear a lot and talk about cables and how they affect the sound coming from the speakers. The problem is that in order to hear the difference between the cables, we must have reasonably good equipment. From the plastic mini-tower you will hardly hear the sound change by replacing the speaker wires. The situation changes when we have a good amplifier and fairly good loudspeakers, and the better they are, the changes will be more audible. The truth is that if we do not find out with our own ears that what the experts describe is a big part of the secret of a well-balanced sound, we will not believe in magic cables for often cosmically large money. Well, where do these cosmic prices for cables come from, it's kind of paranoia, we don't want to be tempted by marketers and give our hard-earned money to small sections of cables that are supposed to do wonders.

To the point…..
The cables connect the elements of the system with each other, bad connections result in bad energy, as well as in life, and in practice they turn out to be the Achilles' heel of our system.
 

Now about cash again ...
Okay, we bought a nice audio system, is it worth spending the same amount on cables?
The answer is ambiguous and yes and no, it seems foolish to spend astronomically large amounts of money on wires. However, my little advice is that good cables can stay with you for longer, when you replace other elements of your system with better ones in the meantime. If you do not believe in magic cables, because you have read / read, these are only the effects of our imagination, the so-called Placebo is nothing to prevent you from testing it yourself and checking it on your system and ear. It's a pity to spend quite a lot of money on good cables, or maybe DIY yourself is worth experimenting and doing something your own way through trial and error.
 

DIY- that is do it yourself
I suggest starting with the speaker cables and inserting a piece of the simplest and cheapest cable into our system to connect the amplifier with the speakers. Now comes the moment of truth ... hmmmm, I wonder how it will play?
 

We are starting the tests😀

Press the PLAY button and fly ... well, but how? Do you like it or less? Some people may not like it, it depends on the equipment, tastes, musical genre, and many other features that we will not write about here, so as not to bother the average Kowalski with what is not important to him. So we go back to the tests and the starting point. After all, what we hear on any section of the wire will not give us any idea whether it can be better after replacing the cables, if we do not actually check it ourselves. The effect may turn out to be meager, or WOW (i.e. a significant improvement in dynamics, speed of transmission and detail, nuances). I know from experience that the biggest job in changing the timbre (as a whole) is contributing to the exchange of interconnects, i.e. cables connecting the source, e.g. a CD player or DAC with the amplifier. It is obvious that in order to radically change the quality of the transmission, all cables should be replaced, along with the power supply . Replacing the aforementioned interconnect or speaker cables alone may have little impact on the final result. To believe in magic cables, I suggest replacing all cables before listening, and everyone will surely notice the difference.

Changing the cable to another  ? - we start playing with cables ...

You don't have to spend money to find out that cables play a big role in our home audio, and that with little cost, we can significantly improve the sound of our system.
Each of us has some unnecessary (often broken) electrical devices in the household, let's use them for our tests and see how much change of wires will bring to our system. For the test, we can use any unnecessary, broken device with a cable (it can be a cable from an old broken iron, hair dryer, lamps, etc.). Remember to notice significant differences, we must stick to one rule, do not replace cables of similar thickness, the braid and the guide from which it is made to something similar, because the effect may be and rather will be, but negligible. A simple test will be to connect our amplifier to the loudspeakers with the thinnest possible cable and start the listening session. If we have a fairly long section of such a wire, we start another test with the same wire, but with a double thickness, i.e. twist the ends of the cable with the same length to make one of the two cables. We run our system and, importantly, turn on the same musical material that we tested on a thinner cable. If we hear a significant difference, we will already know that the cable cross-section is of great importance for the transmission of current, and thus energy, to our loudspeakers. After starting the same song, we should hear a change in timbre (the sound should be different), better or worse, but definitely different. Now, if we are convinced ourselves that the cable cross-section has a significant impact on the final stage of the sound coming from our loudspeakers, let's start testing more seriously (copper and silver makes the difference). You can rent ready-made cables from an audio store, or you can invest a lot of money at the beginning in various types of cheap speaker cables, not necessarily made of different conductors of different thicknesses .  we already have a cable made of another conductor. The most common and the cheapest cables used are cables with a copper conductor. The quality of copper has a significant impact on the signal transmission, in the cheapest conductors, the copper will be of poor quality and purity. I started with the so-called face, that is, a uniform copper wire that I found in an unnecessary cheap antenna cable from the TV set in the basement. The antenna cable is shielded, which gives an additional advantage in the form of elimination of signal interference. After connecting the antenna cable between the amplifier and the speakers, I could not believe how the sound changed. The sound changed radically, gained mass and seemed fuller and more abundant in the bass. However, something was missing here, and the charm of the cables consumed my experience on the way to further tests. It started to get interesting, and I wanted to find out even more which cable and what section would fit my system perfectly. After a few months of testing with various types of usually the cheapest cables, I came to the conclusion that I would be tempted by what seemed abnormal to me at the beginning. Purchase of a speaker cable from a well-known manufacturer, praised in the professional audio press and enjoying good opinions on the Internet. The first purchase was for little money, but I still thought that it is not cheap for a piece of cable. The change was radical, the sound began to be liked more, but it was far from being perfect. The temptation grew as she ate. The Internet and professional literature became the subject of a search for a cable that would change the sound of my imperfect system at my disposal. More tests began, which turned into a cable mania. I torn all the cables that I could test, connected them together in different combinations and sections each time it was different in something better in something worse, I was always missing something. The search for a good drug had become a fact, and I couldn't believe my ears that it was really happening. Sometimes the changes were so small that there could be a placebo effect, but when the changes were radical, it made me sure that a placebo did not exist in this case. The time has come for more serious investments and more professional preparation of speaker cables. I chose the lice of a well-known American manufacturer, because it had several cross-sections of a relatively good oxygen-free copper wire. It started to sound quite like ... Well, something else to add, improve, curiosity did not let it stop there. There was no fund, and the curiosity and desire for improvement grew.

What and how else to change?

There is already a lot, nice bass, there are more details, but a bit of a detailed emphasized treble and magic of nuances are missing. How can I add it without losing what is already there? It was a question that I wanted to find a quick answer to. More tests, more experiments, spending money on cables has become the norm. There was a new idea that I was able to implement over time.
Silver hmmmm have each of us heard about silver wires?  no yes, but only well-known manufacturers in the world of audiophiles who value their products quite highly. After all, I cannot afford it ... However, silver did not let me forget about itself, I read a lot about it and I always wanted to hear what it can bring to my system track. At online auctions, I noticed soft silver wires sold by the meter for wire wrapping. There is a chance to test what will bring silver for them big money. For starters, I chose a fairly thin line of silver wire to see what would add or subtract in my audio system. Choosing the thickness (fi) and the length of the cable I had to buy, multiplying this length by 4, because in the system we have two cables, two cables each (plus and minus), a quite long section came out, which still had to be somehow insulated. The simplest method of good amateur wire insulation was a heat shrink tubing. We start creating our own cable, which is supposed to sound better than the one purchased from a well-known American manufacturer. We will deal with the appearance of the cable later.