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Review on πŸ‘– High-Quality Blue Jeans Cable Canare 4S11 Speaker Cable, 8ft, Single Cable for One Speaker, Grey Jacket, Welded Locking Bananas, Conventional Terminations - Assembled in the USA by Melissa Tucker

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Very good cables for $$$

These are very good cables for $$$. CAN YOU FIND BETTER CABLES? but I don't think you can imagine that better with most systems. They don't make the bass louder and thicker, the highs don't sing like an ultrasonic song from a nonexistent bird, and they don't let the sound penetrate through the walls into the next room. Simply put, they are well made and have a neutral but clean sound. I'll try to avoid audiophile statements, but I'll give my opinion. The system they live on is a Yamaha Aventage RXA 1070 and is connected to the front and center channels. The front end is a couple of streamers running 4k and Atmos, a Sony 4k disc player with SACD playback and a bit overpriced but my delight, an analogue turntable ie EAT C major Tuntabele, Ortofon Blue moving coil cartridge, IFi Phono2 preamp . , IFi tube buffers and Shunyata connects to Yamaha for this. The Yamaha is then used in direct mode to hear the vinyl. The main speakers are B&W CM1-S2 on Sanus stands in the middle room. This setting can provide an intimate listening environment. Basically, cables are based on good science. Canare's wires are fully described on their website (no magic sauce), Blue Jeans provided amazing attachment bananas and welded wires (not soldered) to those bananas. You can stop here and read all the other opinions about all the different solutions to the 'problems' that some manufacturers 'fix' in their designs. Maybe some of them work, but at what cost? Are they worth the cost? For me and my system and my wallet I don't think so. So I'm offering some other background information to let me know what I've noticed. I'm an amateur musician, I've been to a lot of live acoustic gigs with real instruments (no sound systems to amplify anything), been to big rock concerts, did sound mixing when I was younger, I've had some very good 2 channel systems but they were expensive. restricted the scope of this hobby. My work includes working in electronics with years of experience in audio tube circuits, solid state design, RF and now computer networking (I'm currently in the video surveillance industry). I use my critical thinking in this passion for sound. Added to this is the development of critical listening over the years. I've also had the opportunity to listen to multi-thousand dollar systems with all the super expensive cables etc. In these systems they were GREAT, but only available to the "1%", making a wise choice for magical wiring. sometimes hard to do. To reduce the likelihood of buyer regret, I researched the "high-end" requirements and the systems that use them. I have read some very good reviews from respected journalists in the audio industry and have also studied the featured products to see the scientific facts and reasonable expectations of what a piece of wire can and cannot do. These wires are just well made, economical on the budget and I believe they will work very well in most systems. And that's my opinion.

Pros
  • GOLS certified
Cons
  • Updates available