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Need Help with Speaker Cable ID. What are they?

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It has the following attributes:
-From the early 1990s
-Sold by a Vandersteen dealer
-Roughly the same diameter as Audioquest Type 4, but darker blue.
-About the same shade of blue as Audioquest Indigo
-The wire is stranded, not solid-core like the AQ family.
-No writing on the jacket.

Did Tara Labs make a blue cable? Is this a 90's "home install" AQ product?

In any case, thank you for looking and thank you again in advance if you can help me ID this product.
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dragon1952
181 posts
 
.....Meaning they weren't wafer thin strands. The original Midnight had strands exactly like his pic. Maybe the later + and hyperlitz versions didn't.
zd542
5,339 posts
 
"07-23-14: Dragon1952
.....Meaning they weren't wafer thin strands. The original Midnight had strands exactly like his pic. Maybe the later + and hyperlitz versions didn't."

Its not Midnight. The OP's picture has 4 internal multi-strand conductors. 2 red and 2 black. The origional AQ Midnight looked similar but it wasn't the same. All of the solid core conductors, while smaller than typical, each had their own jacket. And yes, they were not configured like later versions of midnight. The strands were braided similar to how Kimber's look. Its easy enough to verify. Just call AQ and have them look at the OP's pic.
plasmatech
77 posts
 
Some of my AQ cable has faded over time, and the letters faded. Some have darkened in color for some reason. Could be Type 4. PT
zd542
5,339 posts
 
Type 4 has 4 solid core conductors.
dragon1952
181 posts
 
Zd542
"Its not Midnight. The OP's picture has 4 internal multi-strand conductors. 2 red and 2 black. The origional AQ Midnight looked similar but it wasn't the same. All of the solid core conductors, while smaller than typical, each had their own jacket. And yes, they were not configured like later versions of midnight. The strands were braided similar to how Kimber's look. Its easy enough to verify. Just call AQ and have them look at the OP's pic."

I'm not going to belabor on this any more. I owned the cable for years and re-terminated it many times. I am intimately familiar with it. Each strand on my version, and the one the OP has shown in the pic (which matches my pic BTW....did you look?) is absolutely not individually insulated. Each insulated conductor is comprised of around 12-15 fairly thick strands. And as a matter of fact,I did did email Audioquest on this cable trying to find more about it because it didn't match their later versions with the + signs or the hyperlitz. It was made so long ago the guy I got wasn't even familiar with it.
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