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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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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.
zd542
5,339 posts
 
I was a dealer at the time when those cables were current. The OP's cable was not the same as the original Midnight. If you can find some old sales literature or a box, AQ always shows a cross section of their cables. The link to your pic was no good. Its very likely that you either had a fake set, or its possible you may have had a set of demo cables. During the design process, AQ makes up test cables and gives them out to dealers and people they know, so they can get some input. Even if it was labeled Midnight, It still could be a test cable. The Midnight jacket may have been the right size for whatever they were making up. That would easily explain why they are having a hard time matching one of their production cables to your pic.
dragon1952
181 posts
 
Did you mean the link didn't work or that the pic doesn't help?
Here's the link and I did test it but you have to cut and paste it of course.
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?118952-Speaker-cable&highlight=audioquest+midnight
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