SPEAKER CABLE OR INTERCONNECT


I am planning to upgrade my speaker cable and interconnect to the HIJIRI cables but budget is a constraint I can do one cable at a time.

So my friends which cable should be my first purchase the speaker cable or the interconnect.

Thanks

128x128jasbirnandra

Currently I am using cables from 

 a company called O2A their top of the

line ULTIME it's silver.But the PC are

Oyaide GPX R V2.

My setup is Ideon EOS stream with 

clock, EXTRAUDIO DAC with PILIUM

Leonidas integrated and AUDIO SOLUTION

Virtuoso M speakers.

carlsbad2

"15awg is not big enough for speaker cables imho."

well, we tend to go overboard these days, here’s a wire chart from the roger russell speaker wire document. depends on both length and impedance.

 

Speaker Wire Info from Roger Russell

Unfortunately there’s no universal answer. I would replace the weakest link. 

I tested Inakustic, Tchernov, and Hijiri and a couple of others.  I ended up with Hijiri and they are a great cable.  I would go with speaker cables first.  I have since upgraded to QSA Ultimatum Infinity Speaker cables and they are in another stratosphere in price but well worth it if you can afford them

Hijiri is awesome and I use the RCA interconnects and power cords on my Aries Cerat System 

#1 speaker cable

Do a search on Audiogon for AES48 and see if it applies to your gear.