Yeah...right
Really though, in the end the world will find out once they listen to them, so hyping them now will back-fire in the end if I'm telling fibs.
So...for what it's worth friends - here's the scoop:
As many of you know, not being satisfied with enough work building speakers to drive a man insane, I decided to try my hand at speaker cable design too.
Well, I've managed to build a pair (albeit a very short pair) and listen to them.
They came about as the result of several folks purchasing them sound-unheard-sight-unseen. Specifically in this case, Gongos has been waiting for a complete set to be built into his Revelations. Well, as I've told everyone involved, I'm still waiting on the Silver-Gold foil from Mundorf. But...Gongos opted for copper ones to the woofers in his Revs. The copper came in so at least I could start building them while I was waiting on the S-G.
In the process of building the first ones, I screwed up in a couple areas. First, I cut the foil too short by accident. Since I didn't want to waste it I decided to make a matching set as they were just long enough to use in Timepieces. Second, after they were done they didn't match my spreadsheet prediction regarding L/C values. They weren't too far off but they weren't exactly ideal either.
As many of you know, we have a pair of Timepiece 3.0s going to RMAF that will be demonstrated in Dave Belles' room (Belles Amplifiers). Anyway, I thought..."What the heck, can't hurt." So I made matching ones for the tweeters too and put them in Dave's TPs. Now... I didn't expect to hear much if any difference. I mean, how much difference can a 3 foot piece of wire make? I was already using good OFC copper on the woofers since day one and Cardas Litz wire on the tweeters.
As most of you know, even though I've decided to try making cables myself, I've still been a bit of a cynic about the whole matter. That's the engineer in me. I've been forced to admit along the way that they can make a difference, so I figured that at least I could maybe bring some real engineering to the cable world. As many hacks as there are out there making cables, I figured I couldn't do much harm.
But still...only 3 feet of wire? That certainly couldn't make much difference one way or the other - as long as it was decent quality material being used in the first place - Right? Well, I put them in and fired up the TPs. Results?
I'm going to be frick'n rich!!!
I heard resolution and detail like never before - not even in any of our bigger models. Then what really has me
is that the imaging/soundstage was better too. I listened to them for a long time too on recordings I use over and over, just to be sure it wasn't my imagination.
The next day, after my son Jason listened to them he came into my office and was trying to hold back a real s**t eating grin. When I asked him what he thought he just started cracking up. He knows our stuff as well as I do and maybe even has a better ear. I can only imagine what the TPs would have sounded like if I'd have used the same cables all the way back to the amp.
Anyway...I'm a believer now!!! And I have a solid theory as to why. I'm not telling exactly what's going on though as there's likely to be some guy out there just smart enough to figure out what I've done if I explain the theory. I'll tell you this much though, it doesn't have anything to do with alternative physics, "subluminal charge carrier migration" or any of that hocus-pocus stuff. All that is fun to think about but it's got nothing to do with the performance of cables. Instead, it all has to do with real engineering - speaker behavioral dynamics, amplifier/speaker interaction and the optimized matching thereof.
Again...why hasn't somebody figured all this out before me? Either I'm really smart or there's a lot of...uh, nevermind.
-Bob
PS. They may be used at RMAF and... I'm taking orders aa
