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Inteligent high end cableing

Good grief.....I thought mating my electronics, speakers and budget was tough, but getting any consistancy with cableing advice seems impossible. I have recently acquired Proceed HPA3 amp (250/Ch), Proceed AVP pre-amp, Proceed PMDT DVD transport and will be linking them to either Watt Puppies 5.1 or to Revel Salons (there's a conversation right there). However, my real issue is what speaker cableing will match this setup. I can rationalize spending $40,000 on my system, but cannot get past $895 per foot for Audioquest top of the line. There's got to be a better 'mousetrap'. Any intelligent advice will be appreciated.
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carl_eber
1,425 posts
 
Redkiwi, that is interesting. I'm thinking of making some short cables, to go along with the little 2A3 mono kit I'm going to buy (I noticed nobody replied to my thread about those). ARE YOU SAYING THAT 6 INCHES OF 8TC SOUNDED BETTER THAN GOLD ECLIPSE 3 speaker cable, or was it GOLD ECLIPSE??? Have you ever tried the thin banana connectors from Nordost or AQ? I'd like to use bananas on the speaker end, to be compatible with Maggies (when I use them). And if I could find silver ones, that'd be ideal.
redkiwi
1,092 posts
 
It was Gold Eclipse 2, and yes, short 8TC sounded more open. But the Wireworld cable has high capacitance and my experience with it could be amplifier dependent. At six inches, I heard none of the characteristics of 8TC that I usually do not like about it, but I did hear an improvement when I tried the Siltech instead of the 8TC, principally in greater mid-range texture, where the 8TC tended to smooth things. The Siltech, by the way, that I used was just their silver hook-up wire lightly twisted, as I did not believe that cable geometry would make a significant difference over this length. I have not tried the Nordost bananas, but the small AQ bananas sound very good and are cheap - probably the best value for money around.
carl_eber
1,425 posts
 
Thanks Red, I'll likely try the AQ bananas then. Probably won't get to doing this for a while, though. I want to build a tube amp kit.
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