Home Depot HD-14 vs Kimber 8TC

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With no budget and a need for longer speaker cables, I decided to go on the cheap and picked up some HD-14 extension cable (80' for 50' price!) at Home Depot this weekend. It's orange & black made in China for Commercial Electric (there was a similar one made in phillipines). I cut it into 4 lengths of 5 meters and biwired the bare wire (I didn't use the 3rd green wire at all).
I swapped out my 2 meter 8TC shotguns and played a few records. The highs were unlistenable, so I let 'em run on white noise radio for a few hours. My initial impressions are that they are kinda "faster" then the 8TC, with more space around the instruments and good soundstaging. Lows were intially non-existent at first but became significantly punchy and deep after some burn-in - I actually set back the xover filter a notch on my REL. Quite impressive, considering they're more then double the length and cost less then one(!) banana termination on the 8TC.
But the highs are still 1 dimensional, harsh, metallic, and edgy afer 6 hours of white noise burn-in. At this point, the bad highs aspect make them a no-go, but has anyone kept these in their system for longer then a quick giggle? I'm wondering if they'll get any smoother..
Playback:
Rogue Tempest / modded Dyna phono pre
Nott. Spacedeck / Clearaudio virt. wood
Silverline Sonatina's
Vinyl:
Tom Waits - Blackhawk..
Cat Stevens - Catch bull..
Mozart pno cto 19 / Brendel (Vox)
The Who - Tommy
Aretha Franklin - Arrives

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Topic - Home Depot HD-14 vs Kimber 8TC - Queg 13:19:40 09/12/05 (2)

Re: Home Depot HD-14 vs Kimber 8TC - Dave Pogue 19:04:14 09/12/05 (1)

Re: Home Depot HD-14 vs Kimber 8TC - Queg 12:19:42 09/13/05 (0)

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