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Best lower end cables for B&W speakers...?

Hello Everyone,
I’m relatively new to mid grade audio equipment and recently purchased a pair of B&W 702 S2’s and a HTM71 S2 center channel. To me, they are very clear and unforgiving speakers. I also use a Velodyne sub, but not all the time. So far I’ve been in love with them but am using borrowed speaker cable, straight 12 guage, to just try.

The Blue Jeans certainly seem reasonable enough, but in my head cables may be more speaker specific than a lot of other applications so I wanted to see if folks had used Canare 4s11 or some other cable that would be 500 and under per pair with their B&W’s. I can get these for 150 and certainly seem reasonable.
At 150, if they don’t work it won’t be the end of the world but figured I’d try here to see what people thought who had B&W’s
goodman770
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iseland
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I've had nice results with Neotech.  They make good quality occ cables in all price ranges both factory made and DIY.  In Europe it's audiophonics that distribute at lowest price ( from what I have found) like https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/cables-hautparleur-conducteurs/neotech-nemos-3080-loudspeakers-cable-...
Don't know who retail Neotech in USA  but Google can help you there .. 
On another note, members like hombre of the flat earth society would be better of keeping the flat earth theories on their own forum! In my opinion..
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audioguy85
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Audioquest type 4 and be done with it. I would have them custom made at Audio Advisor. You can pick from any connector you want for both amp and speaker end and they will perform a high quality termination for you using silver solder. There is a dedicated guy there that does this all day long. The price is right for the "no-frills" type 4 AQ speaker cable. It is also a stereophile recommended component and has been for years. 
dtapo
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Mogami 3082 coax speaker cable sounds very clear, open and balanced in my system. It's 14 ga, but sounds better than my blue jeans Belden 10 ga. I bought the cable and terminated it myself = about $60 for 8 ft cables. I've never owned expensive cables.
jrwaudio
331 posts
 
I just bought Pinetree Audio Kinietic Bi Wire 9AWG speaker cables for my Magnepan. 7's The cables are 10 feet long very well made with high quality locking banana connectors on both ends. I had the option of choosing what color l wanted.  All for the cost of $200 delivered  I definitely what function and performance, but at the same time l appreciate quality and how good something looks

curlyhifi
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If you want a nice project and have the skills I would recommend https://youtu.be/Uqx6VhWq9E8 This video includes the use of Mogami W3104. I have used many different cables over the years and have been very satisfied with Mogami. BTW Mogami's RCA can be used as coax cables. Mogami cables like Canare  have been used to create and produce legendary recordings . 
Transparent cables 1/2 the time IMO get a bum rap that is not really justified .Transparent Cables will work very well with certain types of electronics and speakers. I can say two things critical with transparent. They must be used with the entire system. If Possible when ordering you should tell your dealer about your system. Today I have 5 different systems and they are 95% Mogami
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