i need 20 meter speaker wire, decent quality

hey thanks everybody for your response. lots of good ideas.

Yes, if i went with long interconnects I would be moving just the amp right next to the speakers. I am considering two things. I spoke with Anticables and they can do it for a decent price , under 2k. I also spoke with Morrow and they suggested for runs that long to just try normal 12 to 14 guage house wire with a solid coper strand. He suggested I could try that first and then if it works great. It would cost around one hundred dollars. If you have never picked his brain give him a call. Very smart man and very honest. Send him your business for cables interconnect and power cords etc. He did suggest to me if i paid the price for his cables for 20 meters I'd be wassitng my money. I like the honesty.

It has been suggested to me by several people that I avoid multi stranded wires, including Mr. Morrow, because of the length.

I am a littel concerned about some of the comments about the anticable sounding a little vague, or maybe boring. I just purchased the pas lab amp about 3 weeks ago and i am not sure whether i like it or not. I almost think the Krell gives it a more exciting sound. The pass lab x350 almost has a tube like sound to it, which I am not so sure i like as much. I listen to different types of music mostly classic rock with lots of dvd concerts etc. And more and more I listen to them in 2 channel.

Thansk agian for all your suggestions, very helpful.

merrill

Some of you guys have been suggesting ways to raise the speaker cable off the carpet, which I am currently doing with some clear plastic stands I got on this site. My questions is this: will it actually make that much difference when the cables are going to be real close and actually touching the inside of the walls they are running up and down through? Only aobut 6 ffet is going to be exposed. The rest will be within the ealls and attic.

Hey Shutterbug thanks, I will check out JW Audio.

btw $10 a foot needs to be doubled at Anti cable. And then when they do the labor of braiding and soldering spades, its over $1,800.00. for a shotgun bi-wire

I appreciate all your input very much. I spoke with John at JW Audio at great length and he was very helpful. I ordered two 75 foot bi-wired speaker cables from him. He has great feedback and seems to be a very likeable guy. I will use them for 30 days and if I don't like them I can return them for a small restocking fee, which seems very fair. I will have a professional installer run them up and down walls on the inside. In fact that is what makes the runs so long. If i could run them as the crow flys it would about half the distance.

Thanks agian for all your help. I did speak with MBL and Krell and they both suggested this is a good way to go. We shall see. I am sure it will be much better than the 14 guage braided cheap wpeaker wire I have been using for the past ten years.

I though i already answered this but maybe nont?

It seems i always have extra amps laying around and I am not sure which amps i will have running this system. when the speaker cables get here I will try them both and go with the one that sound the best in my system. I am using a Krell TAS to run the center and two reats.

I currently am using three speaker wires holders per side to keep the cable off the carpet. My question above posed the question how much good will they really do when you have 60 feet of the same speaker wire running up and down the insides of the walls where it is obviously touching the wall itself?

I think sometimes these little gimmicks are kind of blown out of porportion.

Over the past week I made several new aditions to my system including Krell 350mc monoblocks, a shunyata line conditioner, 5 new balanced interconnects and new 65foot runs of JW Audio solid copper speaker cables. While these changes were going on I spent hours listening to the new pieces as they were being added, I have to admit I do beleive the speaker cables made the biggest improvement in overall sound.

I listened to Nirvanna unplugged as well as Rain by the beatles countless times, and while each piece made some nice enhancements the cables were added last and just seemed to pull everything together. Both my girlfriend and I heard so many new sounds it was actualy quite shocking.

Many fellow audiogoners suggested for my length of run to go with solid copper, which I did, and I couldn't have been more pleased. I spent far less than I anticipated ang got much more than I expected.