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mixing brands

Well, I know ad naseum this has been brought up,but allow me to ask anyway. I'm looking to change cable "brands" from Nordost to Kimber kable.
Do most of you folks have same manufacturer for spkr cables & interconnects? I would like to ultimately have all one "family" but prices dictate to first do the speaker cables--then as money permits--(ok-as wife permits) down the road I will get the icc as well. Any thoughts on mixing & matching at least for a while? thanks for reading..
shel50
czarivey
5,676 posts
 
I don't remember the brands I use at all. Definitely on speakers I have Kimber 4tc unterminated on both ends.
Interconnects are mostly pro-audio XLR Mogami gold/silver
barto
52 posts
 
I have a lot of experience with Nordost as a system and combined with other brands. (Although the last was before the "2" of the Norse and Valhalla range came out)

If your plan is to change to another brand I would certainly change the speaker cables first.

In most or almost all cases I had Nordost ic's worked fine with other brands of speaker cables but combining their speaker cables with other brands of interconnects did not work fine for me in all but a few cases.
shel50 OP
22 posts
 
Barto. Thank you that makes good sense. I'm using Nordost ice now testing with diff cables and they seem fine thanks again
banerjba
82 posts
 
Both Kimber and Nordost make cables at all price points.

My small Proac Tablette-based system is a full Kimber loom.

My Harbeth-based system is slowly working towards a full Nordost loom.

In both cases, I am using the budget lines and getting very good and even sounding results.

Kimber plays nicely with lots of other brands but as above I would say Nordost works best with certain brands (in my case Atlas and VHD) rather than others (Cardas and Transparent).
czarivey
5,676 posts
 
Banerjba, I'm snob and don't want to spend over $100 per pair of speaker or patch cables. Any Nordost cables(speaker or IC) below $100 per pair? Termination is optional for speaker wire.
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