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50ft lengths of speaker cables,suggestions?

Building a home, need recommendations on speaker cable, not the best(cost effective), to run approximately 50 foot to equipment room. The sheet rock is already up so this will be fun. My wife is not keen on placing speakers in the family room again, so I need to be carefull-I have not picked speakers yet. My old system was ML Prodigy's and I am also looking at B&W 800D's. So, I am not sure the wife will consider mono-blocks next to the speakers. Thanks,
electrostaticman
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snofun3
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Remember the challenge at Stereopile using extension cord? Search the archives - allegedly it's pretty good, and it's cheap.
robertbrown
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jax2
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The sheet rock is already up so this will be fun.

Ugh, that makes for quite a hassle. Do you have to undergo an electrical inspection for your permitting process? I imagine if your drywall is already up it is past that point. The reason I ask is that building code in most area's require specific types of cabling be used inside of walls.

The Stereophile article mentioned included Home Depot extension cord used as speaker wire. It actually sounds pretty good (tried some out for the heck of it). But that stuff is pretty beefy to force feed through your studs so I personally wouldn't go there. It'd sure be cheap though. Goerz makes some flat cable that is supposedly code for in-wall wiring. Don't know if it would be any easier to route, nor how good it is. A 50-foot run may require some specific considerations for running a signal that distance.

Good luck!

Marco
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