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Originally Posted by narwhal
Haha. I have a similar story. When I got my first home theater set-up (Polk stuff, NAD components), a buddy of mine who was going to help me hang the speakers told me to go buy a 200 foot spool of Monster cable. I said hell no, I have a huge spool of car speaker wire that I some how ended up with that had been destined to put into new Nissan autos. I don't remember what gague, but it was tiny, tiny, tiny. We ultimately did a blind listening to his system (Cambridge & Adcom) that was wired with Monster Cable and everyone (except him) thought mine sounded better with the little auto wire.
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An ex-boss of mine had a real thing for Carver stuff, for some reason. He went out and bought a pair of the 7t's (giant solid state mono amps) for his K-horns, and brought a bunch of us over to impress us with that and his Fosgate surround processor. I could hear the K-33 woofers bottoming out during his "demo" and suggested we check the drivers sometime. Sure enough, they were both torn badly and one had a BAD voicecoil rub. We ordered new ones, I installed them for him, and suggested that he try the old Dyna MK III's that his brother had sitting in his spare room. I hooked them up for him and used a little Radio Shack CD3400 portable CD player as the source (no preamp), and he was blown away. The Carvers were just a TERRIBLE match for the ridiculously efficient Klipsch. He never could reconcile this... kept his mega-watt Carvers and terrible sound for the bragging rights they brought, when he could have had something truly musical.
