Speaker cable for 25 foot run

I'd go with the Signal Cable "Silver Resolution." Much better than their cheaper stuff but still very reasonable. My brother uses it tri-wired between Mac 501s and Mac XRT28's with great results. I still use a pair that have gone through a couple different systems, again always with great results.

Anti-cables!!

Try the Morrow. Mike's speaker cables are excellent and work great in long lenghts. They are thin and flexible and have a 60 return poicy.. It's a no brainer... you will be very pleased... I was.

With a run of that length you'll want to be careful with respect to gauge selection, particularly for the low-frequency cable in your bi-wire arrangement.

The 805s spec sheet recommends a maximum cable resistance of 0.1 ohms (which I think is probably a good target value for most speakers). I assume they are talking about one-way resistance, which would mean 0.2 ohms for the round-trip through both conductors of each of the two bi-wire cables.

Here's a link to a wire gauge/resistance table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge

A quick calculation from the table shows that you'll want to go no thinner than 16 gauge, and 14 or perhaps even 12 would be preferable.

Regards,
-- Al

Disclaimer: I am the owner of PNF Audio.

www.pnfaudio.com

We make custom length speaker runs and you get your choice of color and termination.

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A 25 ft run will put you way under $1000 (near half).

steve@pnfaudio.com

Check out Blue Jeans Cable. Quality products for long runs that wont break the bank.

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm

I always thought size matters with thickness of cables and through experimentation I could not tell a difference.
Try the Morrow cables with 60 return policy. Nothing to lose but maybe a nominal shipping fee... But the experience will be well worth it in the end.