speaker cable

[Chivvyp]

Hi,

Does anyone know if the soniqs speaker cable still available from anywhere?

If not, any suggestions for good cheap cable, it's for surround rears so I don't want anything to esoteric, especially as I'll need about 30 m.

Regards

Pete

[bikerhifinut]

Depends on how serious you are listening to the surround sound.
If it's not that critical, buy a reel of good old 79 strand "Fig of 8" from Maplins or could even try some 2 core mains cable like they use for garden tools (double insulated). Downside to that stuff is it's bright orange! I read a report once about a Hi Fi show where Quad were demoing their electrostatics using that orange stuff because they needed some wire quick and there was a garden centre opposite the venue. Dunno if its true though.

Myself I use Chord "Rumour" but that may be a fairly expensive option if you want 30m of wire. That seems rather a lot, I'd expect some losses so you should look at a fairly thick wire to reduce losses?

A.

[david]

Go for solid core bell wire. Sounds great, works well over that distance for my surround rears and costs next to nothing
David

[Chivvyp]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Bell wire? You'd have been banned from any hi-fi forum for that sort of heresy in the past

Having played round with different types of cables I'm tending to come round to agreeing with you now though. Maybe I was always wrong, maybe my ears are just getting worse, maybe both.

Pete

[david]

I don't think your ears are wrong: it does sound remarkably good! It's solid core which helps and induction will be less than my other favourite for making decent cables or medium distance which would be Cat5 data cable. That is 5 sets of twisted pairs which work well as an audio cable even used singly without any fancy geometry but inductance /capacitance will be higher than with the bell wire solution so it will depend how your amp copes
Have fun!
David

[pre65]

Originally Posted by david

I don't think your ears are wrong: it does sound remarkably good! It's solid core which helps and induction will be less than my other favourite for making decent cables or medium distance which would be Cat5 data cable. That is 5 sets of twisted pairs which work well as an audio cable even used singly without any fancy geometry but inductance /capacitance will be higher than with the bell wire solution so it will depend how your amp copes
Have fun!
David

Since when did cat5 cable have 5 twisted pairs ?

cat5 is good for speaker cables.