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Amp being Bryston 4B-SST (or possibly Simaudio W-5 or W-7), speaker cable Kimber 8tc, and speakers JM Lab Diva Utopia Be or Elektra 1027be (not determined yet).Can such a distance affect the performance of the speakers ?
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You have plenty of amp there and heavy cabling. No sweat. Nice choice of speakers too!
-Bill
I used to use Kimber 8TC. It was my first salon style high quality speaker cable.Much better than the standard Monster and just a little bit better bass than the M-2 Monster cable.
Now I am running Audioquest Type 6 and it can be about any length you need it. It is triple section solid copper wire. About 6 dollars a foot retail price. My speakers are set up for bi wire, so I run the heavy lug to the woofers, and the lighter lugs to the midrange and tweeters. Sounds very nice with great PRAT.
I am sure many have preferences on the wires they use, but the 8TC cannot hold a candle to the Audioquest Type 6. I still have mine in a box labeled pre-terminated wires. Heck I spent nearly 200 dollars for a 10 ft pair of these back in 1981 I believe.
Let see now... you've answered the following questions succinctly:
- Has anyone tried 8TC speaker cable?
- How does it compare with Monster cable?
- What was your first salon style high quality speaker cable?
- What speaker cables are you running presently?
- Are they available in any length?
- How are they constructed?
- How much do they cost per foot?
- Are your speakers set up for bi-wiring?
- How do you hook up your speaker cables?
- How do they sound?
- Does 8TC compare favorably to Audioquest Type 6?
- Do you still have your 8TC speaker cables?
- If so, where do you store them?
- How much did a 10' pair of 8TC speaker cables cost in 1981?
Thanks, tubesforever! That was an informative post. The archives are a richer place because of your thoughtful erudition.
Oopsy...you forgot to answer one little question: "Is 15 ft between amp and speakers too much?"
It depends on the wire you use.Some wire has dreadful smearing and sounds distorted. This is my take on the 8TC.
I wish you had actually read my response fretless, you could have spared yourself a bunch of typing.
If "it depends on the wire" is the answer, what was all that other blather about? As usual, it had little or nothing to do with the question at hand and everything to do with yet another version of the same old tired:"Look at Me! I'm a violin-playing, hotrod-building audiophile with 43 years of experience who lives to tweak, and my system is a belt-drive killing PRaT-machine that sounds like it cost a gazillion bucks!"
I suppose one could answer with some variation of "it depends" to just about any question, but most of us either have a definite fact-based opinion to offer or we refrain from posting.
Just as an example, do you realize that you've informed your fellow inmates that you're a musician at least 39 times since the day you stumbled onto this site last May? Doesn't that strike you as a little excessive, or do you actually believe that such gross redundancy is appropriate and useful to this board?
You didn't even mention the "great PRAT"! There is so much PRAT being tossed around lately, that I don't know why it is I don't seem to have any. :-)
"There is so much PRAT being tossed around lately, that I don't know why it is I don't seem to have any. :-)"Based on his own humble description, it would appear that tubesforever's system is acting like a black hole, sucking all the pace, rhythm, and timing out of the musical continuum while leaving the rest of us shipwrecked on the shores of pratlessness.
In Tube's case, PRAT ought to stand for P lease R eplace A wful T urntable ; )
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Send an instant karma to me...
-Ray
Post this in the cable forum.(I'm running 25' of mapleshade cable, sounds better then my previous 6' of 8TC)
Shouldn't be any problem. 8TC certainly is heavy enough gauge to handle twice that length without problems.
Henry
Sorry, don't know how my question ended up in this forum, it was meant to be posted in the speakers forum.
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