The main problems with assessing cables are psychological. Placebo effect and comparative listening play havoc with our judgments. Sometimes you just hear what you want to hear, e ...

I've seen many ways of transmitting sound without using speaker cables in my 20+ years at Audioholics. Flat roofs, concrete outer walls, and super-critical customers can be an installer's nightmare ...

For most guitarists, a 1/4-inch cable is a 1/4-inch cable. We know speaker cables exist, but until you actually try plugging one in from your guitar to your amp, you might not be able to ...

Ask anyone who's run speaker wires throughout a house for multi-room audio and they're likely to tell you it's a thankless job that not only requires ingenuity and muscle but putting up with a lot ...

Should the Chord Company Leyline2XL cables offer the level of performance that their other models deliver — these could be ...

Cables matter, and they're often a major aspect of most hi-fi systems that gets overlooked time and time again. As with speaker cables, this is an area you don't want to overlook or scrimp on if you ...

The tendency of a component in an electrical system to resist the flow of electrical current. Length and gauge (thickness) of a wire will determine a speaker cable’s resistance to some degree.