Alpha Core MI2 vs Audience AU24 speaker cable

I have had experienced actual HOme audio cables installed in a car audio environment and it seems interesting to share what progressed through the sessions. You will be surprised:

1. NOT all cables that are very good in a home audio A/B/A session will find success in car audio. Case example is that we had a Silver audio hyacinth cable which is undoubtably a very good bet than a QED qnex2 in home listening but eventually in a car audio environment was a disappointment.
2.Since most speakers in car audio environment are very near, look for characteristics as a recessed staging for long term listening. NEVER go for supposed FAT robust sounding cables in home environment as surely from experience again, they tend to sound too bloated and cavity resonances are VERY much accentuated...neither does any dampening will help.
3. The best cable I have tested is something that may not be manufactured by now, but look for the Transparent cable THE LINK. not 100 or 200. I emailed transparent awhile back and they said it was not available.
4. For the speaker cabling: we have had success with QED qudos and soniclink AST 50. ALso for kickpanel, you can use DNM reson. I liked DNM best....and the Judges will too...in SQ
5. AMplification? very few that is SQ oriented, look for DLS or the older pre 2000 soundstreams
YES, some home audio amplifiers took a beating when we tested A/B but funny to have recollected when we boasted it to a friend who had a Krell amp, only to humble ourselves to the Krell....WHAT deep soundstaging and that extension...car amps even the best ones cannot accomplish.

6. Head units? nothing touches a Denon DCT Z1 or an A1, not much seen in the US but very common in Japan and Korea.
7. AND YES you can use spikes underneath the amps to clean up the highs...HOW to install without tipping over?... i can email an illustration ...an ingenious technique.
8. Subwoofer? JL audio and KIcker, OZ audio ....not even those VIFA's can accomplish this area.
SPeakers? go to CDT audio as Vifa makes the most non fatiguing sounding of the bunch

9.Subwoofer cabling? the old and trusty AUDIOquest RUBY!
10. How many subs? one 10 will do.
11.Sealed box- no overhang
12. hope the info helps.

Mike,

I am not too familiar with the symbilink since i have not installed one before. However, it must be some type of connection with a higher voltage out (line driver) plus the advantage of having the merits of a balanced connection. This is very similar to those Denon units and the recent ones Rockford commissioned Denon to make the rfx8250's . Obviously a design intended to make best of the transmission of delicate low level distance accross a longer lenght, in car audio situations.
Experimentation is still key here> Funny , that installers used to learn a lot from "very adventurous car audio enthusiasts" Who are willing to gamble.

I would like to share another experience though.

IT is called spreading the cost relative to using cables.
If there were no budgetary constraints, I would suggest a throughout interconnect change from, head unit down to the amps, and anything in between; line drivers, crossovers and active eq's. Sometimes , when home audio cables are used, its cost can easily match every other equipment that was installed and the owner would surely not understand and protest. SO this is the option. The most critical part is the last line that goes to the amps. Say if you had a crossover(active), this is where the BEST cable you can get hold on gets into. Then the rest of the budget goes upstream.

From logic, conventional thinking would say, IT defeats the purpose as the upstream cabling is compromised. NO, it is not. Again, I have tried it, and it should work in your case.

Conventional thinking will say: car audio cables are built for the purpose and should be better at screening than home audio cables,NO not again. Cables like Sonic Link Vermillion, transparent link 100, qed qnex2, sonic link pink are better sounding than the best in the catalogue of Phoenix Gold, Esoteric audio or the RFosgte's . ( the acceptable ones (car audio are only stinger).