Just a quick note on our speaker cable offerings.
A number of years ago, I met Carl Smith at a speaker gathering. Carl spent his entire working career as a high-end cable designer/builder for Bell Labs. The cables he developed had to be highly noise immune with tightly controlled capacitance and inductance. He employed winding/braiding methods that are state-of-the-art.
Carl's hobby is high-end audio and he spent several years researching the finest wire available world-wide. After talking with him for an afternoon, I was convinced that Carl's cables employed the best methods and materials possible. Since he was building his cables at the kitchen table, I volunteered to put them on my web site to help Carl develop his business. I knew that if people wanted high-end cable, they were unlikely to find any that were superior in any way.
At the same time, many of our customers did not want to spend the type of money required for Carl's cables. So, upon request, we have built cables for some customers. But it is not something that we have never promoted and you won't find them on our web site.
There are plenty of companies out there selling every conceivable type of inter-connect and speaker cable. And people seem to have strong feelings about the subject matter. So we feel we are better off leaving it to others to sort things out. That said, if someone wants us to build speaker cables, we will do it.
Just for the record, unless the customer has a specific wire he or she feels strongly about, we use generic 12-gauge oxygen free copper wire in a TechFlex jacket and terminated with good, but moderately priced connectors. These cables serve us well and we have no problem building them for others.
- Jim
