Worlds Best Cables Unboxing and First Impressions
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Trying out the worlds best cables using Canare 4S11 speaker wire after buying some of their XLR cables. so far, so good. this is the real deal !
Music in this video:
Song: Om Unit - The Silence (feat Jinadu) (Taken from Threads LP) (Civil Music) Official Music Video
Artist: Om Unit
Also check out the latest Worlds Best Cables - New Ultimate Series 8GA Speaker Wire Unboxing here: ua-cam.com/video/SwWm6X1-rMw/v-deo.html
I prefer the 4s11’s over a much more expensive, popular audiophile brand. Highs and mids are clean, with a wide soundstage beyond the plane of the speakers and tight bass. And no added inductance from a silly battery pack. Excellent cables for the money.
Ex pro audio recording tech here - that went to Sound Engineering school
Because he was audiophile:
1. Enjoy the usage 👍.
2. Canare, mogamy, klotz, belden are all pro audio / commercial oriented brands with measured and reported performance data shits so you
Can choose the exact audio cable for any of proud playback system owner need.
No voodoo, no infantile marketing b.s.
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Are there any substantive reasons to pick Neutrik plugs over Amphenol or visa versa?
I have these same speaker cables from WBC and they sound glorious. I like them better than the Audioquest Type 4 cables that I’ve used for the last 6 years. Definitely very good value and performance.
Just bought the Ultimate 7 AWG version. Wow!! The best cables I have used in my 40 years of playing with audio hi fi. Get them. You will not regret them. Running them on an Anthem AVM 70 with 2 Tekton Encore speakers. Connected via 2 Macintosh 611 Monoblocks. Love these cables!
how are your cables doing? I just got my 8GA ultimates in the mail and made a video.
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Lov them. Would buy them again. Hope all is well. Dan
I build my own speaker cables and what really got my attention to be honest with you is the fact that you hit the nail on the head it actually cost me about 100 bucks for a 10 ft build so once you really do the math it's not a bad deal even if it is a little bit of bullshit thanks for the video bro..🤘🍺🤟
I bought a set of WBC 6" Canare 4S11 speaker jumpers for my ELAC UBR62 speakers to replace the inexpensive stamped metal "shorting clips" of unknown composition and conductivity that came with the speakers. They were boxed and wrapped very well, better than I expected for $26 purchase. WBC included a sheet describing how they were assembled which leads me to assume they'll last for a long time. I admit to not having done any comparative listening tests because I'm familiar with the Canare 4S11 and figured that they would be just fine for the purpose. The jumpers look good and the spade lugs fit the binding posts on my speakers with no problem. I have no regrets about spending my money on these jumpers to make the connection in the very short gap between the binding poets.
I just got these for my B&W 805 4Ds and there was a noticeable improvement over my previous non bi wired Audio Quest cables which were 14 gage. Normally I would say bi wiring will yield little or no improvement, but I think if you have the equipment to take advantage of it, it can make a difference. The speaker interconnects of the 805 D4s are the best built I've ever seen, this wasn't an after thought like I think most speakers are...very well constructed and heavy duty...they definitely had bi wiring/amping in mind when designing these speakers....out of the box they don't even have the jumpers in place, they are in a separate box. I will be upgrading my center channel to an 8 series center in the future and will be picking up another one of these when I do that. In all WBC makes great cables, I have two of their XLR 10 foot runs for my SVS 4000 subs.
I bought a pair of 7 awg- 8 feet for my vintage marantz ., saw an immediate difference.. great speaker cable ..
I have purchased two sets of cables from WBC, a set of XLR interconnects and a very similar speaker cable to the one you are featuring. I have exactly the same impression as you, for the money they can't be beat. I have some more expensive cables on other areas of my system but will surely turn to WBC for future cable needs. I'd love to see them add power cords and USB cables to their offerings, I think it'd be interesting if they do.
Yeah I also have their XLR cables, those are the first ones that I purchased. Then I saw they make custom cables so I bought a set of those as well. So far so good!
@@morejelloplease I don't believe in the snake oil gimmick but have to admit I own two sets of Audioquest Carbon interconnects. At over 200 each little cable they are somewhat of snake oil contenders. However, the performance of the Carbon's USB cable between my streamer and DAC was very noticeable and the only reason for which I end up buying that cable and a Carbon Digital Coax. That is probably as far as I go with cables. The WBC cables are a better deal than even Pangea cables.
@@ToolsAndI I don't do snake oil either but there are some instances where stuff just works, and if the shoe fits... :)
WBC is a company in Japan and they sell top of the line cables for a cheaper price bc they buy in bulk and build the cables themselves so they can sell them for a cheaper price, they make mogami and canare cables as well. Cant be beat
The company is called Perstaff Holdings and they do have a website. They are based in Sri Lanka. The cable, whether canare or Mogami, are made in Japan. These are legitimate products and seriously can't beat the cost. Cheers
i bought a pair of WBC Gotham 10ft interconnects for the preamp to monoblock power amp runs. I paid $48 for the pair and am very happy with the quality and sound of them.
For the money these are a steal.
I recently started buying from these guys and they are truly a bargain! I typically like to do all my hobby soldering and wiring work myself ect, but in this case it costs me more to buy the wire run and the connectors seperately and the time it would take to assemble them would cost me more money than just buying them from these guys premade lol crazy 😅
I purchased the WBC Gotham Star-Quad interconnects. They produce a dead black background out of which the music arises. No interference at all, despite the spaghetti of cables (including power cables) behind my cabinets. They do the job well.
I have the WBC Gothem interconnects and love them. I got curious so I just recently picked up the Canere interconnects to compare. I'm still in the break in period but the Canere interconnects give vocals and beautiful body and depth but the Gothems sound more wide open and balanced. Both are a great pick up
Thanks for the input. Im torn btween the gothams or the Canare l series that wbc offers. I want a better soundstage and blackness !!. Did you hear some differences in the highs mids lows?. Thanks for the info!
@@Jeipr I tried the Canare, but they seemed bright on my system. With the Gotham I'm getting balanced dynamic range.
I got a pair of their jumpers and they look good and sound good too
I absolutely love these cables I have them now on my whole system! good video sir. just sub'd!
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Yep, I bought some nice velcro, and some very nice cables came with them 😎👍
I'm liking the WBC products.
I got some WBC with smaller wire, but similar bannana plugs... I like
Nice improvement in sound for me.
Just purchased WBC RCA inter-connects. Phenomenal. I believe I am doing “passive bi-amping” with my cables right now: I have a Vintage Amp and preamp with SPRING connections on the amp for 2 sets of speakers… (8 speaker spring connections) going into 2 ports (banana plug) on each of the speakers - that part is just like yours. If I order custom speaker cables, should I leave the amp side bare to attach to the spring openings?
Thanks!
-Eric
you could, or make banana to bare wire jumpers in case you get a different amp that has other types of binding posts. i'm not knocking your amp, but you could get some 12/14GA lamp cord from home depot and install your own bananas, might be a cheaper alternative :)
The company is located in Sri Lanka and distributes them on Amazon. They buy in bulk and the cost to build and warehouse is the reason for the price savings.
I like those!.. I just bought the same configuration, except I got the Mogami.. Now I want those.. .. Canarie 4S11, they just look better
I don’t usually pay attention to snake oil cables but I bought some BJC ten white speaker cables $65each which for me is a lot for a single cable. Honestly it sounded the same as my old cables but they did look and feel of higher quality. I thought about getting the canare 4s11’s but I was told that the Belden have “better” sound quality BUT it’s so subtle that I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference lol
I was going to get the same cables, but then I saw the new worlds best cable ultimate series and went for those. The fit and finish is superb, they may be a little bit more, but they look 10x better and have a lower GA wire which end result is you have less resistance and technically more current, which could produce more bass. there's now a link to the new ultimate cable video pinned at the beginning of this comments section. happy listening!
I just recently purchased WBC's Mogami W3082 coaxial speaker wire with the Eminence Gold banana plugs. The soundstage opened up and the kicker was the bass... I suddenly had more bass? What is up with that? I know I was getting more bass through my KLH Model 5's because I had to turn down the two SVS SB3000 subs I have in this system, a good 4 to 5 db. That is real, not something in my head. I bought the pair, ten foot, for roughly $90 delivered on Amazon. These replaced a pair of 10 AWG OFC I put together myself. There is a marked difference in sound, and I have to wonder what the coax cable does vs the ofc? I'm a cable snake oil guy, and this is a first for me.
The problem is, in recent years the way we shop and receive information has changed dramatically. Anyone with an internet connection can be an expert of their own making. Not everyone is honest. There's just as many junk science reviewers out there, not looking to get the truth, but to build a UA-cam channel. And people like you are the victims in all of it. You upgraded your cables and hear a legitimate difference, and now you're trying to figure out what happened in disbelief. The truth is, your new cables made a difference, and that's all there is to it.
Moving forward, I'd like to give you my opinion. Now that you've heard to the difference, don't go out and buy all new cables, especially ones that cost more than whatever your comfort zone is. Let the upgrades come naturally. You'll soon find out that results vary. Replacing other cables in your system may not yield the same changes. Sometimes, you won't hear a difference, or the difference you do hear is a downgrade. If you had your new cables in the system and upgraded to your old cables, it would sound worse, and your experience would be negative. My point is, just be careful with future upgrades. Results will vary, and its perfectly normal.
I use some really fantastic speaker cables. Zip cord bought at Ace hardware. That said, I have several XLR to 1/4" TRS cables made by this company, for connecting balanced gear to my Audient audio interface. Really well-made, never a connection problem, and I've been using them for about two years with no issues whatsoever. And as an added bonus, they kept the polarity straight on all my cables - which is not a given with some manufacturers.
I'm a fan of zip cord and the old mcintosh speaker pages. These were nice, and the price was right. Just curious, how did you find this video? The views and comments really shot up the past few days, wondering if it was mentioned on a forum of just the youtube algorithm. Happy listening.
@@morejelloplease It was in my recommendations. Of course, I service vintage audio gear for a living, so I watch a lot of this kind of content.
im curious but what exactly is zip cord? i just built my own subs using 2 um18's and a crown ce4000 amp. previously i had a rsl 12s sub i bought. the rsl is a pos and isnt even close to these um 18's. the bass is clearer the sound is much cleaner. i was impressed with the result. ill never buy no commercially made bs sub ever again.
@@parkersgarage4216 "Zip cord" is just an old term for plain old two-conductor lamp cord, like you would find coming out of the base of a lamp, or like the wire used in old-fashioned extension cords. It was called that because the insulation on one conductor was usually ribbed so that you could tell one conductor from the other, and this ribbed insulation made a "zip" sound when pulled off a reel or run across a sharp edge or corner.
The point is that speaker cable, so long as it's thick enough to carry the current needed without too much loss (which for most home stereos means 18 or 16 gauge), it's perfectly fine. There's no need to pay for anything more than that.
@@ScottGrammer oh ok, I agree fully w you there. The speaker cable fools are just that fools. I'd love to blind test all these audiophools. The amount of snake oil they buy into is comical. Appreciate you telling me what zip cord is. Thanks and take care
Sweet setup. I would like to see more audio stuff from ya. Thanks
really? thanks for that, I may make some more videos. i'm always playing with different piece of gear, speakers, subs, etc.
I posted another audio video for ya!
I’ve had great luck w WBC. Have them for my stereo and guitar cables. Mogami and neutrik!
I ordered a set of WBC Gotham star quad RCA cables. They are awesome! For my speaker Cables I went with blue jeans cables. They also use canere cables. I'm like you, no snake oil for me.
Awesome! I like that they have variety and you can customize them how you want. If i were to make my own they would prob cost more and not come out as nice. For a simple no BS cable these are pretty legit!
I have purchased 4S11G for my HT front stage and have DIYd the nice looks. Canare are so affordable and yet so very high quality cable! I have 4 terminals on the L/R speakers (QAcoustics 3050) and am considering re-doing the terminations of the cables to actually utilize all terminals.
At present, i have my speakers Bi wired with Pangea cables. I might be in the market for different cables. We’ll see 👍.
So how did they sound? How did they compare to the Nordost cables? (In the end that's kinda more important than whether the heat shrinking is nice,)
Truthfully I don't notice any difference
I just posted about my experience with the WBC Mogami W3082 coaxial speaker cable using the Eminence Gold banana plugs. The soundstage opened up and I had to literally turn the bass down in my mainly Denafrips system. My KLH Model 5's started hitting lower, and the only reason I knew that is that I had to turn down my two SVS SB3000 subs 4 to 5 db. Something is going on, the difference between my 10 AWG oxygen free cables I built myself vs this Mogami coaxial cable. This is 14 awg coaxial cable, and I do not believe it has anything to do with who manufactures the coax cable, I bet you would have the same results with the coaxial cable Home Depot sells if you took the time to assemble a set.
@@michaelwright1602 coax or you mean bi-wire cable? if you're running 75ohm coax then yeah it may have an affect. usually when you have too long of a run of too thin of a wire you'll sacrifice the high frequency. i have all sorts of room acoustics issues, even with two subs, usually the opposite side sub feeds the opposite corner, and depending on room structure you'll have all sorts of peaks and nulls. I set mine so that most of all the cd's i listen are balanced. if the bass is too hot, that's how the producer recorded it. I used a RTA app on my phone, and have a Umik but never hooked it up to room EQ software. everything here is very basic and I go by my ears. it's like racing a car, my butt dyno says it's fast, then i look at the time slip to verify :)
make youre own cables. For that price, u can build youre own cables using silver plated copper, triple isolation and massive, full copper banana plugs / xlr / 6,5mm plus a outer skin of youre own color choice. Also u can pay even more and use thicker inner cables and with not twisting the cables, u minimize interference.
what do you think are the cables used at Abbey road. have a guess ?????????????????????????????????????????
People in the comments section are amusing. Between these, Van Damme and Mogami you are not going to hear a difference, because there is none. You could spend 10x more on cables and you are gaining zero benefit. As long as the cable is well constructed you are good to go.
On a side note - thank you for showing these, I was wondering about these connectors vs Neutrik.
What makes one wire high frequency. I guess just to make you feel better. All 4 of the wires in the Canare 4S11 are all the same. Just different colors.
It's for those "break-in" guys lol
Cables of the highest grade and performance for home audio use can be made for just a few dollars each using the best quality components available from electronics wholesalers.
The cable shown could be 1:1 replicated for under $20 with 20 minutes work.
At least the price of these isn't too offensive... like $100 or something? Overpriced yes, but still not absurd like the literal $1000s of dollars that some spend on cables that don't do anything magical.
Bottom line cables are not supposed to sound like anything, if a cable has a certain "sound" then it must mean it is either defective or being used out of spec.
True, but these cables cost less than I was able to make them here.
@@morejelloplease Which is fair, the company needs to make a margin too.
As far as "audiophile" gear goes this isn't a shocking example at all.
do they come in pair or do you have to order 2 in quantity ?
They come in pair but you can specify exactly what you want, if you only need one or if you want each side to be a different length. BTW I love Rx-7s. My dad and I owned 9 of them. White FD3S FTW! :)
I got a 7’ pair of 4S11 from Blue Jeans Cable for around $50 with even nicer locking bananas. They look nice and heavy duty. Sound wise they were not as open and detailed as my Kimber 4TC cables.
I would love to do a blind test or a null test to see what I'm missing lol.
@@morejelloplease An easy way to compare speaker cables, while not necessarily scientific, is put one brand on the left and another on the right and use the balance control if you have one to switch back and forth. Just remember the geometry of the cable makes a bigger difference. If you try to compare zip cord A to zip cord B you probably won’t hear much difference. But a braided cable should sound very different than a zip cord or even Star-quad style cable like the 4S11. Parallel zip cord style cables are cheap and get the job done if you don’t care about extracting all of the signal. But a better engineered cable can improve on other aspects of electrical performance such as velocity of propagation. The geometry of the cable can literally slow or smear some frequencies over others. This leads to a less focused sound and loss of fine detail. Zip cord was basically made to pass 60Hz AC cheaply and efficiently. Speaker cables carry low frequency signals with continuously shifting dynamic current draws into a dynamic load. (compared to RF which acts very differently) Nevertheless if you don’t hear differences consider yourself lucky. But don’t assume everyone is like you.
@A Corny Audiophile I'llbelieve in extraterrestrial life before i believe that some speaker cables can actually make a difference. Sure you may be able to see it on an o-scope but what your ear can decipher is going to be completely different. I'm not talking about comparing a garden hose equivalent speaker cable to a 26 gauge wire at 20 kHz. I assume you've seen the test that gene has done at audioholics and you're familiar with the audio science review channel? How about ethan winer or the roger russell mcintosh speaker wire page. Usually people that push this issue are ones that sell high end cables. In the end its your money, whatever makes you happy. I cannot tell the difference between a pair of rip cord and a $20k set of MITs and my hearing in the audio world and ham radio world works just fine :) good luck.
@@morejelloplease FWIW , Gene liked Kimber 8TC and could hear the difference.
@@Corndog642 not in the video i watched, he said there's a .06dB difference and your ears aren't going to tell the difference. he likes the kimbers for the jewelry aspect. it's a well made cable, and so are the worlds best cables. they look nicer than a pair of low voltage garden lighting cables and was worth the $100 to me. like Gene said, you can move your head an inch and get different readings in your head. or how about the blind speaker cable test where they never switched the cables at all and people came up with all sorts of shit that they claimed they heard. placebo effect at it's finest lol. at the end of the day, you like coke , i like pepsi, and we do on down the road.
No test. How do they sound
Test? I don't do any testing on youtube. I may play some sound clips here and there but you're not going to hear any speaker cable differences especially on youtube. They sound like any other quality pair of speaker cables to me.
man theres like no bass at all you def need a sub in your system. sounds like all treble, i just built myself 2 um18's personally. hands down better than the rsl 12s i had. i returned the rsl 12s and built these. i power them w a crown ce4000. the crown pushes 1200w @ 4 ohms per channel. the bass is so much cleaner and the sound is so much clearer. ive never heard such clean bass before its pretty awesome. i dont get into the snake oil cable nonsense myelf. i do however understand if you simply want a nice speaker cable. however, dont waste money on hdmi's and power cords. if you need an hdmi cord simply purchase a 2.1 hdmi and be sure your devices support the cable.
Did you wait for the bass to kick in? My cell phone prob doesn't capture it well, you must have missed the pair of rythmik G25HPs :) best audiophile subs on the planet :) cheers!
What's the name of that last song?
"Music in this video:
Song: Om Unit - The Silence (feat Jinadu)"
@@morejelloplease Sounds amazing through qobuz.
@@thepracticalaudiophile how do you like qobuz? how does it compare to tidal? i have the oppo udp205, not sure if you're familiar with that, it has limited networking and no apps, some have streamed with it but i'mnot sure what the best method is, havent researched it much. i'd love to slowly migrate over to streaming where i can search a website, press a button and have it play on my system. avsforum has 9000 posts and i'm not spending a month on there lol.
Qobuz sounds the best of the four I've tried (all hi-rez). The other three are Tidal, Apple Music and Amazon HD. But the truth is I think they all sound fantastic. I'm sticking with apple music because it's free through my Verizon phone service. But if I had to pay it would be between Tidal and Qobuz. I haven't had a chance to listen to MQA through Tidal yet.
@@thepracticalaudiophile cool, i've been reading good things about Qo, I may be able to hook this little asus chromebook up to the network and run a usb cable out and direct into the oppo 205 usb dac input. it would be nice if i could control it and search/play music from a phone app, i'm very late to the streaming world, just trying to find the best way to stream music with my current setup.
You say more expensive speaker cables are snake oil. Have you listened to more expensive and compared them? If so which ones? What's the rest of your system?
i've played with rip cord, nordost and some MIT's. i have monster cable to some mark levinson fine stranded. i've heard other cables but on speakers or in an environment that i wasn't familiar with so i can't make a fair assessment. most of my speakers are very inefficient and power hungry. if the wire can handle the power i throw at it then it's good enough, i dont split hairs over something i can see on a scope or RTA but can't hear. some of these guys have $10,000 speaker wire, $100,000k+ amps and no power filtration or surge protection :)
It's unfair to call something snake oil unless you've done an A/B comparison on the exact same system. Too many people use that term too loosely. On another note I have these cables in a non biwire setup and love them. I hear no difference between spades and bananas. These sound better than my $400 Morrow audio cable. These are definitely worth the price.
@@thepracticalaudiophile i heard no difference between these and my nordost cables. i heard some MIT's but didnt have a way to directly A/B them, but from what i heard they didn't make me open my wallet, not for $10k lol. I'll buy $10k speakers or amp, but not cables. like saying a sports car won't be it's fastest unless it has a performance seat :)
@@morejelloplease My friend just spent over $2000 for a set of Zu Audio cables in a biwire configuration. I'd like to do a blind a/b test with these and some simple jumpers. Probably won't because I wouldn't want him to feel like he wasted his money. But I won't call them snake oil until I actually do an a/b test. As a closing note we were lucky to have discovered these cables.
@@Psychedelic-Playground it would have cost more and by twisting the cables you minimize interference. That's why phone lines have been called the twisted pair for decades.
Where can I buy them from and how many gauge are they
Search for them on Amazon, then click "Ask seller a question". They are super friendly and usually respond within 1 day. If you don't see what you're looking for, send them a message and they will custom make your cable. The gauge depends on the wire used. My 4S11 is 14GA but if you run them in parallel they are 11GA. My cables are 10' long and I have no issue with 450w RMS per channel.
Hello how can I pay for custom order please
I replied to 3 days ago. check my response under your first post.
I understand why you paid for expensive cables why you say your amp output 1KW... you amp must cost many 10K$. Most people don't need these cables!
I am still waiting for an engineer to explain how electronic "burn in". Speakers, yes, they are mechanical and need to loosen up, but cables?
There may be a difference detectable with lab gear but you won't hear the difference. Check out audio science review channel on youtube.
@@morejelloplease I am starting to believe that they want you to "burn in" their cables, without listening, so that you will forget what the system sounded like before you put them on.
Burn-in is a ridiculous concept for most product categories in the audio world -- but seeing this attached to cables makes me instantly lose respect for the company. I certainly don't regret spending $120 today on WBC cables instead of shelling out over $260 for Mogami branded, because I know the parts and quality is legit; But it's obvious they're trying to appeal to the gullible snake oil enthusiasts in the hifi world; customers whom the audiophile industry love to manipulate and hoodwink. Definitely not a tactic that inspires trust.
You keep saying you had these customized yet your exact cable is widely sold on Amazon by WBC. This is not a customized order. There is no way on Amazon to customize this cable.
Wrong, you must have skipped thru my video.
Look cheap
i'm only welding with 1kW so they work fine for that :P