Speaker Cable - Best Value

[Dark Knight]

What Speaker Cable have you Used, Did you go for the Best Money could Buy, did you get Budget Cable or Middle of the road....

I Myself went middle of the road and got 'Van Damme Blue' Cracking cable at a reasonable Cost.....

[Per]

Hmmm. Richard at AV Sales has recommended the Tech+Link 133 strand wire as suitable for my planned system. I wouldn't say it is expensive either - £1.68 +VAT per meter.

Problem is how much difference would £5/m speaker wire make?

I need 25 metres of the stuff ,more if I bi-wire the front pair, or wire ahead for 7.1

Cheers

Per

[chelsea.tone]

I will be using QED (X-TUBE XT400 & Silver Anniversary)

[Per]

My current stuff is unbranded but it is certainly smaller than the Tech+Link wire. Mine is 42 strands per terminal (3mmx3mm, or total 3mm x 6mm), and this is an area that does concern me - planned fairly high end equipment, and I am worried that the speaker wire might not quite do it justice!! Would I really notice the difference?

Cheers

Per

[chelsea.tone]

Personally i think you would

[Per]

I will be using QED (X-TUBE XT400 & Silver Anniversary)

Yowch!! That would be £400 for my required 25m

Per

[chelsea.tone]

Fairly expensive, but cheaper than some

[Per]

Personally i think you would

I think I will review my speaker wire options!

Once the wire is under the wood floor, it'll be hard to remove it and replace it with an upgraded wire!!

Cheers

Per

[chelsea.tone]

Good idea, how about this.....

http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/d...l/display.html

[Per]

That's a great price for a 100m roll!!

I'll have to have a word with Richard next week!

Cheers

Per

[chelsea.tone]

No problem m8, glad to help

[dunks517]

I initally used QED custom install speaker cable (the type that is smoke free) until I ran out and B&Q's best 79 Strand went in everywhere else. When I ran the first fix in I used 250m of speaker cable and 400m of Cat5e plus around 200m of coax CT100. and not a scart lead in sight. The wife questioned (as they do) why I needed to run 6 strands of coax from the hub to the outside access point, I replied: 2 for Sky HD, 1 for FM, 1 for Freeview and 2 spare reserved for future use. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I wished I ran 2 lengths of CT100 coax to the family room instead of one.

[Dark Knight]

The van Damme Blue cable i used Is also very reasonable for a studio grade cable.... Clearly AV sell it at £1.80 per mtr (inc vat) but if you need more than 50 Mtrs CPC is alot cheaper at £140.00 for 100mtr (inc vat)

Description

* VANDAMME STUDIO GRADE SPKR CABLE (UPOFC) 2X2.5 100M
* Area, conductor CSA:2.5mm²
* Conductor make-up:50/0.25mm
* Cores, No. of:2
* Material, secondary insulation:PVC
* Diameter, External:2.5mm
* Material, primary insulationvc/neoprene
* Resistance, per metre:6.8kR
* Voltage rating, AC:500V

Applications

* Wide range of conductor sizes for various low impedance applications
* Ultra pure oxygen free copper conductors for high efficiency signal transmission
* Special composite jacket material for excellent flexibility

Electrical and mechanical specifications

All conductors use Ultra pure oxygen free copper and are insulated with PVC (red and blue)Red is taken to be positive, blue negative
Conductor stranding - 147 x 0.15mm
Overall diameter - 7.6mm
Overall jacket colour Sapphire Blue RAL 5003
Working Voltage 300V/500V
Test Voltage 2000V DC for 1 minute

More than enough info there for a bit of cable i think........ deano

[Per]

Well worth a look!

My past hour has been looking at other cables, and a new bill of around £300

Cheers

Per

[putbinoot]

Call me a cynic but that van Damme Blue cable is just 2 core electrical flex. I'll sell you 2.5mm 3 core blue flex at £1.20/m and that 3rd core once earthed at one end will prevent any induced emf and interference from affecting the sound quality. Or if you don't trust me you can buy it from http://www.allaboutelectrics.co.uk/d...100M_BLUE.html
at 82p/m. where you can get it in white and yellow also. If you are wondering why my cable is 38p/m dearer it's because I get a disco girl to do some magic over it before I send it out to you.