In Reply to: If You Can't find Western Electric speaker cable posted by ahendler on July 24, 2016 at 13:58:09:
As far as the WE speaker wire, I'd definitely head for one of the 2 options listed under your #2. Several months back I bought a pair of the "9497" speaker cables from a Canadian seller here on AA. Extremely inexpensive terminated with cheap bananas for about $60. Have no idea if it was the real deal or not. I didn't see Belden printed anywhere on either cable. Certainly resembled pics I'd seen of the 9497, but who knows. I found it pretty thin and brittle sounding overall. Not exactly my cup of tea, but perhaps in the "right" system? It's my understanding that Ken Shindo used the 9497 for internal wiring for his speakers, not as speaker wire per say. As always YMMV. Personally if I hadn't found the real WE #16 from from a trusted seller already, I'd be checking out what Parts Connexion or Parts Express had to offer.
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