Hello my friends!
I'm in the process of incorporating a home theater into my living room stereo setup.
I have a nice "mid-fi" setup consisting of a Rotel integrated amp, a Rotel CD player and B&W DM602 S3 standmounted bookshelf speakers.
Interconnects and speaker cables drive me nuts!
With my stereo I did not want to take a chance on wiring being the weak link, so after doing some research I splurged on a pair of internally biwired Kimber Kable 8TC speaker cables and a Kimber Kable Silver Streak analogue interconnect.
I am quite pleased with how it sounds.
However, I am now adding a Yamaha RX-A1020 AV receiver and 3 other B&W DM602 S3 speakers in a 5.1 setup.
I have a Samsung smart TV and a Samsung Blu-Ray player.
Thing is, these speaker cable runs will be much longer and I cannot afford to run Kimber Kable 8TC for the rear channel.
But I DO want to use the best speaker cables that I can afford.
I have been reading reviews of supposed 5 star cables over at What Hi-Fi Sound and Vision magazine's website.
I am considering a few options.
They give Audioquest FLX-SLiP 14/4 high marks, and it seems to be affordable budget cable. I am considering buying a spool of this, doing double runs for bi-wiring and adding my own banana plugs to them.
Other options are the highly rated Wireworld Luna 7 and cables by QED.
I'm willing to spend money on cables, I'd just prefer to not go crazy if I don't need to for excellent sound.
Your thoughts?
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Topic - Speaker cable options...and how much is too much for a particular stereo / home theater... - TimothyD11 08:13:35 03/13/14 (9)
- RE: Speaker cable options...and how much is too much for a particular stereo / home theater... - unclestu 12:45:39 03/14/14 (5)
- one other thing - unclestu 12:52:27 03/14/14 (4)
- Also resonance control... - Duster 13:54:08 03/14/14 (3)
- Oh one other tidbit - unclestu 14:26:34 03/14/14 (1)
- RE: Oh one other tidbit - Duster 15:13:02 03/14/14 (0)
- RE: Also resonance control... - unclestu 14:17:14 03/14/14 (0)
- I use the Wireworld Luna 16/4 - mt10425 14:33:37 03/13/14 (0)
- RE: Speaker cable options...and how much is too much for a particular stereo / home theater... - Duster 12:56:39 03/13/14 (0)
- RE: Speaker cable options...and how much is too much for a particular stereo / home theater... - samac 11:15:15 03/13/14 (0)