Favorite speaker wire?

[RSR]

PLEASE BE A WIRE BUSTER

I think the famous Rogges Russel spent years of their life designing speakers and other REAL, LISTEN... REAL hi fi equipment, not "marketing hi fi"

read part of the site of Mr Rogger
"We have been told by advertising that the exotic speaker wires offer fabulous advantages over ordinary lamp cord. It would seem reasonable that using this same wire for lamps would also enhance their performance. In the same vein as wire literature, you can have your lamp reproduce light with the full spectrum color fidelity of natural daylight........."

hahaha

I think it so

read the full article here Speaker Wire


CHEERS

[fakeout]

I hope I'm not committing a booboo by bumping this thread. But, assuming I can find 14ga single stranded copper wire, what to do with the other wires? I mean if I go 14ga single strand from amp to speakers, then on a T-class amp you also have to hook up with let's say a 3.5mm male to RCA. Is there a way to connect 3.5mm and RCA jacks to 14ga single strand wire?

[WaVeInFoRm]

wire is wire, so thick wire has less resistance than thin wire, so buy a half decent thickness and job done. any benefit from solid gold wire is marginal and probubly only placebo, noticed...

[WaVeInFoRm]

i would love to see one of these cable fanatics do a blind listen test with 2 sets of identical speakers, and a speaker selector, on the same amplifier

one wired with telephone wire.. ok thats a bit to far

ok

one wired with standard power cord form spare computer leads (what i use.....)

and one wired with oxgen free super conductive bla bla £200 wire

any money says then wouldnt know which was which

there are far more factors in play, a good set of speakers is upmost and a good amp, and cord?? it needs to be a conducter... its as simple as that

[WaVeInFoRm]

this is halirious... sucker bait, lol

http://gizmodo.com/302478/7250-speak...sspeakercables

must be for rich people who have run out of things to spend money on, so they get a pear wire to match there pear shaped figure

ive just read this... absolute stupidity, they really go on about rubbish,...

http://www.pearcable.com/sub_products_anjou_sc.htm

[Bob Brines]

Originally Posted by fakeout

I hope I'm not committing a booboo by bumping this thread. But, assuming I can find 14ga single stranded copper wire, what to do with the other wires? I mean if I go 14ga single strand from amp to speakers, then on a T-class amp you also have to hook up with let's say a 3.5mm male to RCA. Is there a way to connect 3.5mm and RCA jacks to 14ga single strand wire?

Let's assume just for a minute that this post is on the level and the poster actually want to use 14ga solid wire. The easiest source of this is Romex cable, i.e. household mains cables. Romex has been discussed elsewhere for speaker cabling and I am sure that there are a small number of systems using 14ga or even 12ga Romex. The immediate problem of using 14ga with RCA's and 3.5mm stereo jacks is that 14ga wire is half as thick as the 3.5mm jack and there is no way to squeeze three 14ga wires into the jack housing. End of discussion.

Let's assume that the poster actually meant 24ga wire. This would be appropriate for a T-amp in a rig that is using a stereo plug to connect components. The only problem with using 24ga singly to a RCA plug is to provide adequate strain relief. A single 24ga wire will have a pretty fragile joint in the plug housing.

Oh, well.... Too much time on my hands.

[fakeout]

Uh, OK. But, I thought Planet10 uses single stranded CAT5...

[Bob Brines]

Originally Posted by fakeout

Uh, OK. But, I thought Planet10 uses single stranded CAT5...

He does, and so do I. That's 24ga not 14ga.

Bob

[zman01]

Quick and dirty way to convert RCA into stereo. So you can fashion a pair of interconnects with CAT5 and use this. Is there any degradation of SQ because of the converter? Really dunno...

[planet10]

What Bob says.

To expand on the strain relief issue: It is pretty easy to nick the solid cable when you strip it -- this leads to wire failure. Even with no nick the stuff can break. For speaker cable i terminate it in Pomona dual bananas since we switch speakers a lot. Every 3 or 4 months a channel will go down -- the 1st place to check is the 24g solid going into the Pomona. 99.9% of the time it is a broken wire. Most of the time at the speaker end where it gets stressed.

If you are making interconnects it doesn't hurt to "wrap" it around a substrate (send & return crossing at 90 degrees). The substrate can be a piece of teflon, another wire, Chris has used PVC fish tank tubing... you then have something for the heat shrink to hold onto for strain relief.

dave