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Inteligent high end cableing

Good grief.....I thought mating my electronics, speakers and budget was tough, but getting any consistancy with cableing advice seems impossible. I have recently acquired Proceed HPA3 amp (250/Ch), Proceed AVP pre-amp, Proceed PMDT DVD transport and will be linking them to either Watt Puppies 5.1 or to Revel Salons (there's a conversation right there). However, my real issue is what speaker cableing will match this setup. I can rationalize spending $40,000 on my system, but cannot get past $895 per foot for Audioquest top of the line. There's got to be a better 'mousetrap'. Any intelligent advice will be appreciated.
johngalt
sdcampbell
2,136 posts
 
Lest Trelja's post be overlooked, note his reference to a company called Home Grown Audio. I looked at their Web site last night. They are offering silver interconnects either assembled or as kits. Their 99.999% pure, all-silver braided interconnect sells for $70 ($40 in DIY kit form), and their "imitation" of Kimber Silver Streak sells for $40 in assembled form. I decided to buy the all-silver kit for $40, and will report back after I do some experimenting. The company's web site address is: www.homegrownaudio.com
atarlton80bc
5 posts
 
TARALabs.com Go to their website and use their free CRES system for recommendations, then email them with more questions. Great folks at TARA Labs and very helpful. They actually make all their own cables!
brulee
564 posts
 
Tm12 mentioned coincident cables. About six months ago I bought a pair of coincident super eclipse speakers. I had kimber 1030 IC a pair of quattro fil IC and FMS nexus. In my system the 1030 and coincident sounded best. 1030 cost $1200. Coincident $300. Coincident speaker and PC cable are also excellent. Tm12 wasn't just talking. He did his homework. A friend of mine with Venture speakers Goldmun 36 transport and a million $ worth of other cables use's Coincident IC and speaker cable. My point is it's not just a good match with coincident speakers. Coincident cables is great stuff period. At it's price it's a must audition.
redkiwi
1,092 posts
 
Tm12 and Brulee are right on. The CST (Conicident) IC is amazing value, and better than everything that I have tried. HT is not even close. I tried the top of the line from a dozen name companies before the CST. I do not know about the speaker cable, but it is reported to be just as good as the interconnect. I use monoblocks, and back them right up to the speaker and use 6 inch links of Siltech, which essentially is like not having a speaker cable, given there is more, and lower quality, hook-up wire inside any speaker than I am using to connect from amp to speaker - so I am not about to thry the CST speaker cable.
emanes0e59
2 posts
 
Redkiwi's post re 6 inch spkr cables is intriguing, as I, too have monos close to speakers, but was warned both by Nordost and YBA to use 1.5m min length speaker cables because of some resonance issue! Is this a bunch of crap? Powered speakers certainly benefit from direct-connect, no? As it turns out I mounted my monos (Aleph 2s) UNDER my floorboards, so needed 2m to thread up the baseboards, anyway. Any thoughts on min length parameters?
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