Electric String

Once upon a long ago, I worked in a 2nd hand hi-fi shop and did my best to uphold the tradition of being a miserable bastard who knew more than the customer, although my rather unique position was to declare a lot of expensive equipment as junk and push the customers towards quality value stuff which performed just as good if not better most of the time.

Anyway, turns out the internet has come out in force against Monster cables and declared it impossible to identify the difference between them and coat hanger wire in A/B tests. Although I don't think the method of testing was scientifically valid, they're probably right.

I did, however, find this interesting article on wire which explains what makes a good speaker wire.

http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm

Oh, the picture for those of you old enough to remember is from Not The Nine O'Clock News (Gramophone Sketch)