Entry-level speaker cables

Mogami 3103 terminated with Vampire high copper content spades. Cryo it and burn it in post cryo and it gets even better.

I preferred it to my Kimber 8TC (also cryoed and burned in on the Nordost cooker) and ended up selling the Kimber.

The 8TC retails at $25 ft., the Mogami around $2.75.

The Mogami is mentioned a couple of times at the bottom the page on Salvatore's site linked below:

http://www.high-endaudio.com/RC-SpkrCab.html

Based on the $25 per foot calculation, I saved $340 (68%) on my used type 8 pair. Not too shabby.

"Based on the $25 per foot calculation, I saved $340 (68%) on my used type 8 pair. Not too shabby."

Always good to buy used-makes sense. However, even at $8 foot for used 8TC it's almost 3X the price of the 3103. And the Kimber Postmaster spades are hideously overpriced IMO.

I bought the Mogami as a bit of a cheap experiment after having excellent results with some of their other cable.

My 8TC was probably 15-20 years old and I can't actually recall what I paid for it-it probably didn't owe me much. When I did sell it after the Mogami outperformed it the net result was I had about an extra $100 in my pocket. I thought that was not too shabby. ;)

Wolf Garcia,

I have the Type 4 and Neotech 3001 IC on my vintage tuner and I too like the solid core everywhere approach - very nice

also, fwiw,

I do not necessarily believe the Type 4 is inferior to 8TC or Satori. I have owned all 3, not at the same time, and the Type 4 has a direct quality that is appealing. I thought the 8TC was anemic and the Satori thick.

of course ymmv

My "per foot" comment was innacurate and should be ignored (8tc is not AQ Type 8), but the purchase still lacks shabbiness.

Note that after messing around with spades, bananas, Speakon's, guitar phone plugs (which actually do go back to old telephone switchboards...lame!), and otherwise burning fingers and things with soldering devices, I found that the AQ spades and bananas (non solder user friendly ones) are great...easy to find, not too pricey, and well made.