Re: Adding length to speaker wires

["Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson" <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jeff Volp wrote:
>
>> I certainly consider myself a DIYer, but I'm happy with the Panasonic
>> SA-HT820V that we bought several years ago for about $250.
>
> Blech!!

It is all about value for the dollar...

>> Very heavy wire is only needed for the bass.  It seems that all systems
>> today have a single bass driver, and all the "directive" speakers are
>> strictly mid and high range.
>
> I don't know about that.  Every time I set foot in either Future Shop or
> Best Buy the sales guy is trying to "upsell" me to the 8 gauge "oxygen
> free" Monster Cable.  I mean just whom would you have me believe?  A
> pimple-faced professional sales associate from Best Buy or some guy in a
> Newsgroup that says he's a DIY'er??  :-)

FYI, this is the "some guy in a Newsgroup":  http://jvde.us

Jeff