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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
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.

celtic66
1,672 posts
 

I've only run the Duelund 12ga single wire with cotton wrap.  It sounds in my opinion great between a Luxman 509X and ATC 20 passives.  Period.  It is in this configuration for my system very open, with great attack and sound stage.  Period. Your mileage may vary.  Period.  Cheers

digsmithd
913 posts
 

Yet to try duelund's...my hunch is they are great little wire with that combo celtic66.Got great repsect for his engineering and design.

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