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Suggestion for speaker cable for aerial acoustics 7T

Hi guys, I recently bought aerial acoustics 7T: Have Naim unit nova and tried Audioquest Rocket 33 biwire. Now trying Clarus Aqua biwire. Both wires are different: Rocket 33 is just basic with slightly better on highs. Clarus aqua is good with bass and sound stage: It mellows down the highs and mids. I am still in search of better speaker cable. Don't get me wrong, the speakers are great and I love listening with either of those wires. Just want to complete my set up with best speaker cable to match these amazing speakers without burning cash (Looking to spend ~ < 1000 $). If you think, spending on speaker cables are like spending on "snake oil", PLEASE do not comment. Thanks in advance. 
romney80
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stereo5
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What about Canare 4S11 cables?  Very inexpensive and can easily beat many other brands regardless of price. 
romney80 OP
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@stereo5. I have heard a lot good about these "budget audiophile cable". Have you tried these and compared with others ?. I can give a shot on these wires as they are inexpensiv2.
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vair68robert
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Have you thought about making your own ?
I made my own using Cardas chassis wire and Kimber spades .

Have you thought about using 2 sets of cables ?
one for the bass and the other for the mid/tweeter or
one cable for the positive terminals and the other for the negative terminals .

Look into Blue Jeans Cables , they use Belden or Canare 
and both are very inexpensive .


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stereo5
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@romney80,

The Canare bested a $1500.00 pair of Groneberg Quattro Reference speaker cables I was using since 2010. Bass goes deeper and highs are more detailed without sounding etched.  I am extremely happy. Check out Ram Electronics online. I bought my cables from them and they are extremely reasonable. Many recording studios use their cables. 
adg101
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The Canare is very good. Highly recommend as well. I don’t have Canare speaker cables anymore but I do have several pairs of Canare balanced cables I made with Neutrik XLR’s and they are very, very good and I have compared them to my WyWires and they’re not up to the WyWires. Now, are the WyWires 10x better because of the cost? Note at all, but that’s how it goes; have to spend a lot to get small improvements. 
So what’s the difference between my experience with Canare, speakers cables, digital coax cable with their crimped plugs and balanced cables... they’re damn good for the money and no doubt will better a little of higher priced stuff but not all. The Canare does nothing wrong whatsoever but maybe a little closed in and I found a little rolled off on the top which on many systems or type of music that may be a plus. Great thing about the Canare is it’s so affordable it’s a no brainer and a great place to start regardless of ones budget. I agree... try a pair of Canare. They do need a lot of time to settle in so give them time.

Oh, don’t buy a  bi-wire set of use the jumper straps that came with, but make a small set of jumpers with the Canare. Go to Nordost web site and see how they show to use jumpers. I use their method on my 7B’s and it made a noticeable improvement.
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