Cable advice


My system is as follows: I am looking for advice on interconnect and speaker cables for my system. Marantz PM-84D Integrated amplifier, Denon 1650AR CD player, Vandersteen 2Ce speakers. The CD/Amp interconnect is Kimber PBJ. Speaker cables are inexpensive Monster cable which I bought at United Audio (about $40 for a 15ft run). The speakers are bi-wired. I would appreciate any advice I can get on cables, both interconnect and speaker.
chander

Showing 1 response by tom_nice

PJB is easy to beat even for the price: you can get pure silver Stealths--www.interlinkhouse.com--for about the same. With the Stealth 30-day money-back guarantee, you'd be doing yourself a favor, IMHO, to give these a try, as far up the models list as you can afford (frequent promotions to check out). I made my own cables for a decade or so, including KCAG clones, and PJB clones (but with a fatter braid, which sounded better) for noncritical use (cassette tape, FM tuner), and when I first heard Stealth cables, I gave up my homemade ones completely. Homegrownaudio are cheap but use wire that's WAY too thick to sound good. That's true of a lot of name brand cables, alas. Poor designs but wonderful marketing skills: that characterizes a number of well-known companies, which I'll not go so far as to name.