Easy! Buy the cheaper set! Don't be fooled thinking "more expensive" speaker wire is "better"!
Buy Decision Audioquest vs. Audience
In my price range I have narrowed down my speaker cable choices to the Audioquest Rocket-44 and the Audience OHNO-III. This will be a 1.5m pair connecting my Coincident Frankenstein Mk-II 300B monoblocks to my BD Design Orphean horns. Your input is greatly appreciated.
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Audience makes good stuff and that model uses the OCC copper (Ohno), but it's normally all stranded wiring from this company. The Rocket 44 is combination of PSC and PSC+ copper (Audioquest's Perfect Surface Copper, which is very close to OCC anyways). Rocket also has solid-core conductors (which are better) that span multiple awg sizes. The only downside is that Rocket sometimes has those silver-plated spades/bananas which can cause the system to be too bright. I would recommend buying the Rocket 44 "PREMIUM No Frills" model from Audio Advisor. They have a deal with Audioquest where they terminate custom lengths of the Rocket 44 with their own connectors. The PREMIUM version uses the better gold-plated copper Pangea spades and bananas. |
I am a big AQ fan and second auxininput's recommendation. Though I would have to say it all depends upon which cable 'sound' you are wanting. Perhaps if you can try a pair of each- like the Cable Company offers: https://www.thecableco.com/lending-library Bob |
Oh, one more detail. The Rocket 44 is only a 13awg speaker cable, so I do not recommend doing a bi-wire termination. That will split the cable into a 15awg / 16awg wire set. If your speaker has four binding posts for bi-wire, I would connect the Rocket 44 to the upper binding posts and use a jumper cable to connect the lower binding posts. Or buy two sets of Rocket 44. |
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