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Fans of Blue Jeans Speaker Cable?

I searched the archives and have seen a good bit of comment on Blue Jeans' ICs but not much on their speaker cables.

Based on comments here I recently bought a pair of their LC-1 RCA interconnects. They're fantastic, period, and one of the best audio purchases I've made--everything I play sounds more human, whole, and naturally occurring in space. They replaced Tributaries A2. I'm planning to buy another set of the LC-1 to use as jumpers on my NAD C372.

So...my question is what kind of experience people have had with the speaker cables, particularly their 10g Belden 5t00up? I'm currently using Anti Cables and have been very happy with them (smooth highs, deep, well defined bass, vivid mids), but I thought that at the price I might give the Blue Jeans wires a try. Do they have any particular sonic signature? Are they as good a value as the LC-1 or the Anti Cables? Is the solid-core/stranded wire debate relevant to the comparison?

System is: Rotel 1072 with RFI chokes on the power cord > Blue Jeans LC-1 > NAD C372 with Signal Cable Magic Power cord > Anti Cables > Vandersteen 1Ci.
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ablang OP
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Thanks, Peter. I'd been wondering about the Canare 4S11 because its geometry provides some EMI/RFI filtering--and every time I've treated EMI/RFI (whether through interconnects or EMI chokes) it's helped my system a lot. Is that likely to make much difference in the speaker cables? The Canare's specs on resistance, capacitance, etc. aren't quite as good as the Belden, though its resistance is lower than that of my Anti Cables. I know measurements don't tell the whole story, but are those factors worth worrying about?

Thanks for any other input.
mmt
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BJC are constructed well but in my system the midrange fell back a bit. Highs were sweet, bass very good. Vocals and mids seemed to suffer but that's just my experience.
ablang OP
165 posts
 
Jambalaya, were you using the Belden or Canare BJC, and was it single or biwire? I've mostly seen comments on the Canare and would love to get a feel for both. Thanks.
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mofimadness
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I replaced a very expensive pair of speaker cables with the Canare 4S11 and couldn't be happier.

I didn't get mine from Blue Jeans. You can find it for around $1.30 a foot and terminate it yourself. My 13 foot pair with shipping was about $40.
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rok2id
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I own the BJC Belden 10-gauge 5T00UP (white).

Looks good, well constructed, I terminated it myself with GLS locking, belkin and GLS Regular bananas. Seems to be one of the few cables that actually appears to be the gauge advertised.

I have three amps that I play in a weekly rotation. One hooked up to the BJC, one to AQ 14 awg and one with a generic 12 gauge from amazon.

I am blessed in that they all have the same sound (none).
Cheers.
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