Interconnect cables, Speaker cables & Power Cords.

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So after a couple of days I've listened to some CD's, SACD's and watched bits of some movies - I switched out my Monoprice speaker wires to my new STRAIGHT WIRE bi-wire cables for my front three.

To be honest I couldn't really tell much of a difference for most music and not much at all for movies. If I could switch back and forth immediately like going from "Pure Direct" to "Straight" then maybe I would notice more but It took a bit of time to switch them out and hear the same song again. One thing that had an immediate noticeable difference in was on female vocals on the "World's Greatest Audiophile Vocal Recordings(SACD)" especially the first track - Spanish Harlem by Rebecca Pidgeon, it never sounded that good before - Her voice was just so smooth and I've listened to that song many times. It could be just me but if it made a bit of a difference, then maybe much more expensive cables would make an easily noticeable difference since this was just a very small upgrade. I guess it was still worth it for me since I only spent $150 and not thousands.

So some people say all speaker wire is the same - I guess I would say it's not but I wouldn't say there is much of a difference except maybe on really hi end cables which I wouldn't bother trying out.