Thiel Owners
"I highly recommend very short runs of speaker cable. " FWIW: I've been using 25 foot long Belden speaker cable (10awg). Nothing fancy or special, but the 3.7s still sound better than just about anything I've heard anywhere near their price. (Including my friend's system that uses tens of thousands of dollars worth of Nordost etc). |
Tom, I used the Belden 5000 series Cable, 10-guage, from Blue Jeans cables: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/speaker/index.htm Though I've been a high-end audio nut much of my life, I'm not big on spending money for high end boutique cables, which makes me a bit unusual I guess in forums like these. (Even though through my friends and contacts I have access to, and have listened to, some of the the most expensive cables in the world from Nordost and many others). I like Blue Jeans cable because they are a no b.s. company, you can find measurement specs for the cable, etc. I located my source equipment down the hall from my listening room so I had to run speaker cables under the floor to my speakers - about a 25 foot run or so. The Blue-Jeans cables have excellent specs for long runs and I went with 10-guage, which is probably over-kill. But what the heck. As I said: I've heard some speakers I own with with these cables, and with the highest end Nordost, and...well...even for a super picky listener like me I'm happy where I spent my money :-) As I've written about earlier in the thread I have to sell my 3.7s because they are just big enough to impede traffic flow in and out of my listening room. Despite auditioning the newest-thing speakers out there, the 3.7s have been sooooo hard to replace because they just seem to effortlessly "do it all." |
