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Cheapest but good cables….

Ok, I’m setting up a little system, a Benchmark AHB2 and DAC3 HGC. I had old Kimber cables laying around but they are going to be too short. These are from 15 years ago and I’m sure they were good and expensive. However, I’ve been a bit skeptical about speaker cables and interconnects and was going to ask here if it’s all BS but I see an older thread where almost everybody agrees that quality cables are extremely important - duh, more money!

I don’t want to go overboard on twelve foot speaker cables but I don’t want to sell myself short neither after splashing out way more than I intended to on this system.

im looking for recommendations for the cheapest cables that I’ll barely hear a difference when comparing to expensive cables.

thanks in anticipation

thomastrouble
hilroy48
162 posts
 

In my opinion there is no such thing as cheap and good. Those 2 words do not belong in the same sentence. Good is what works with your system and sounds great without compromise. Cost is what it costs.

tjag
131 posts
 

Hi @celtic66

Duelund DCA 12 is excellent. Run that currently with ATC 20 passives. But not as cheap as Mogami at $17/m from Parts Connexion. It comes as a single wire, so pricing is a bit deceiving as you need calculate 2Xs for one speaker. 2m length each side is actually 8m to achieve. Best of luck achieving your goals. Cheers

I would like to ask how the Duelund DCA 12 measures in terms of sound image wideness, detail and 3D when compared to the expensive cables?

By the way the single wire has a different sleeving than the double wire.

Duelund DCA12GA 600Vdc tinned copper multistrand power cord wire in Polycast sleeving

 

While the Duelund Dual DCA12GA tinned copper multistrand wire in cotton and oil

 

 

digsmithd
913 posts
 

Yeah SCM...furez is a great budget choice.Too bad they are eliminating stock and the 12 no longer available.The 12/4 and mogami 3104 are my diy budget speaker cables i could live with.Mogamis needed to be run in ⏳ but made the difference.

scm
314 posts
 

@digsmithd

Yeah SCM...furez is a great budget choice.Too bad they are eliminating stock and the 12 no longer available.The 12/4 and mogami 3104 are my diy budget speaker cables i could live with.Mogamis needed to be run in ⏳ but made the difference.

I twisted the 14 gauge wires together which came out to 11 gauge.

Would have been nice to have the 12`s but these sound just fine to me

BTW...Anybody else having problems with constant "Page Unresponsive" notices ??

 

digsmithd
913 posts
 

Thats a descent awg for most applications...i sold off the last runs of 4/12 a while back...im hanging onto my last pair of 7'...and yeah sometimes un/re.

The mogamis are full meal deal (8 awg)...using stand mounts and some of the lowend ive gotten on bass...hs wow.They are not a one trick pony though either.Avoutlet seems to have a bit of furez 14 left fwiw.Like the viablue dressup/tech flex for cables.

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