Shadowfax
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I have a pair of Synergistic Speaker Cables from the early 90s that came with the setup I have. Due to gear placement of former owner, they are about 14 feet long. I really only need 6 feet so the rest is coiled up and stuffed behind the rack.
Years ago I reached out to Synergistic about reterminating them and they said they would do one termination for $200 for original owner and that only they could do it, and I would ruin them if I did it myself.
So my question is, is there anything proprietary, or voodoo like that would stop someone from cutting the cables in half and adding new spades to them?
The ICs that came with same gear are Kaliedascope II, and the speaker cables look similar but have no name on them.
When I questioned them a little these are the snarky replies I got. Interesting that they compare speaker wire to an amplifier
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Dear Brian,
Our cable are components. You cannot take one amplifier and cut in half to make two amplifiers, can you?
It is less work for us to make an entirely new cable than to retrofit an old one.
Many thanks.
Yours in Music,
Lee Rockway
Synergistic Research, Inc.
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Brian,
That is the way we cut cables down- the labor is greater to make two pairs from one then it is to make two pairs from scratch. At $200 we actually loose money, so we make one usable solution for our customers however we cannot tie up production for two full days on such a project (which would be the case were we to make two pairs from one). We keep the cost low to do this on one pair as a service to the original purchaser of the cable and to provide a pair of speaker cables for the new length requirements (the new shorter length). You can also use your Lifetime Passport upgrade option and move into much better performing current production speaker cables if you wish. The way this works- lets say your cable had an original sale value of $750. You get a $750 trade-in allowance toward new Active TESLA speaker cables with a value of twice your old cables value- so in the case of this example $1500. The difference, $750, is paid in cash.
We do not however touch cables that are purchased second hand nor do we offer trade-in allowance for used cables.
Please let us know.
Years ago I reached out to Synergistic about reterminating them and they said they would do one termination for $200 for original owner and that only they could do it, and I would ruin them if I did it myself.
So my question is, is there anything proprietary, or voodoo like that would stop someone from cutting the cables in half and adding new spades to them?
The ICs that came with same gear are Kaliedascope II, and the speaker cables look similar but have no name on them.
When I questioned them a little these are the snarky replies I got. Interesting that they compare speaker wire to an amplifier
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Dear Brian,
Our cable are components. You cannot take one amplifier and cut in half to make two amplifiers, can you?
It is less work for us to make an entirely new cable than to retrofit an old one.
Many thanks.
Yours in Music,
Lee Rockway
Synergistic Research, Inc.
and
Brian,
That is the way we cut cables down- the labor is greater to make two pairs from one then it is to make two pairs from scratch. At $200 we actually loose money, so we make one usable solution for our customers however we cannot tie up production for two full days on such a project (which would be the case were we to make two pairs from one). We keep the cost low to do this on one pair as a service to the original purchaser of the cable and to provide a pair of speaker cables for the new length requirements (the new shorter length). You can also use your Lifetime Passport upgrade option and move into much better performing current production speaker cables if you wish. The way this works- lets say your cable had an original sale value of $750. You get a $750 trade-in allowance toward new Active TESLA speaker cables with a value of twice your old cables value- so in the case of this example $1500. The difference, $750, is paid in cash.
We do not however touch cables that are purchased second hand nor do we offer trade-in allowance for used cables.
Please let us know.
