AAC SC-5 Classic Speaker Cable Pair Gold Spade

The original Audio Art speaker cable design features silver-plated 14 gauge high purity OFC conductors, with quality gold plated copper spade terminations that fit all common binding posts sizes. SC-5 offers value and performance to the cost-conscious audiophile. Single wire construction. Hand crafted in San Diego, California, USA. "So, let me first lay some important groundwork. I hear a lot of people defend the good ol’ 16-guage spool speaker wire as “good enough,” and I’ve heard so many of the arguments that good speaker cables don’t make a difference. I’ve even heard people go so far as to say that anything above the spool is snake oil. I’m here to tell you, beyond the shadow of a doubt, nothing could be further from the truth. The moment I put in the SC-5 cables, the whole soundstage just opened right up. These were fresh, out-of-the-package, not even broken in yet, and everything was different. I was listening to a different sound system. So, I left them, to burn in a while… [...} I suddenly heard much more depth and articulation. Instruments had more color and roundness. The bit of brightness that was bothering me before from certain frequencies was gone, and the sound field was smoothening out. This was only day three. After only a couple weeks, they settled in beautifully and the two-channel system began to take on a new life of its own. It became so amazing to listen to that I found myself sneaking downstairs just a little too often. Shortly thereafter, the PS Audio Sprout 100 showed up for me to evaluate (see last month’s review). I used these speaker cables for that also, and was blown away by the pairing. The SC-5s really let the Sprout do all the magic that it was capable of." The Shoestring Audiophile (Oct 2018)