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Suggest speaker cable for long run...?

I have a 50 foot run (yeah, I know, it's long).

I've been using Belden with decent results, but wanted to see if I could improve things. I tried a 50 foot run of Synergistic Research Accelerator and it sucked out some of the upper bass/lower midrange (something that I can't afford to lose - my system is already lean enough).

So I'm wondering if there's some other good cable that will do well on a long run.

Thanks in advance.
madfloyd

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clio09
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I'm going down this road myself right now. I'm looking at a run of 18 - 20ft. though. So far I've looked at building a set of WLM speaker cables as seen here:

White Lightning Moonshine

I already have the two twenty foot runs so it should be easy to see how they sound. I built an 5 ft. pair previously and they are surprisingly good. However, the extra length may cause some issues. Cheap enough to find out though.

OCOS cables are supposedly the cable to get for long runs. They'll run you quite a bit of money though.

I'll be just as interested to see what others have to say.
clio09
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See here:

http://dedicatedaudio.com/inc/sdetail/20951

I've just made a set of the WLM DIY cables and will be trying those along with some other cables I'm making out of a 30' spool of Belkin PureAV Silver Series cable that uses solid core PCOCC copper. The spool cost me $15. You can search for it on the Internet.

In addition I'll be trying out the Morrow Audio SP3 and the OCOS cables. Somewhere in this batch I should find a winner.
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