Just spent £1200 on cable. I can not tell the difference between my £50 a meter Chord Epic, and some cheap 60p a meter unbranded cable. OH GOD WHY
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Just spent £1200 on cable. I can not tell the difference between my £50 a meter Chord Epic, and some cheap 60p a meter unbranded cable. OH GOD WHY
Buy the thickest mains flex you can afford (and whatever will fit into the binding posts), job done.
Edit: I bought some Van Damme Blue for my own stuff but that's because it cost only slightly more than mains flex and I needed the extra flexibility of it.
Just spent £1200 on cable. I can not tell the difference between my £50 a meter Chord Epic, and some cheap 60p a meter unbranded cable. OH GOD WHY
I bought some decent cable on EBAY which ended up being about 1m too short for my needs. I didn't have lots of cash to go and buy some more so I picked up some really cheap cable for my surrounds. The stuff I got sounds perfect without any electrical hum at all.
I have expensive cables for my front and centres - but that was about £4 per meter. I didn't have cash for that around the satellites. I have a big room and I don't have carpet to cabling had to go around the walls.
http://cpc.farnell.com/van-damme/268-502l/vandamme-hi-fi-spkr-cable-2-5-50m/dp/CB04675
http://cpc.farnell.com/van-damme/26.../dp/CB04669?in_merch=Products From This Range
Personally I'd choose one of the two above, if you want 100m both work out a similar ish price as the first roll is for 50m. I have the first one and it is very good, can't say I have compared it to the cheaper stuff though but as I spent over £2k on my speakers spending another £50 wasn't gonna be the end of the world!
After reading AV Forums extensively I went with B&Q regular speaker cable on their recommendation.
Works and sounds nice with my amp and speakers.
Is this the one you mean? I need to get some speaker cable today and B&Q is only 5 mins away
http://www.diy.com/nav/fix/electric...d-OFC-Speaker-Cable-2-x-79-Strand-20m-9686718
Van Damme Blue is usually recommended as a reasonably priced ceiling, but personally I'd get any decently built 2x4mm2 cable, which you can usually get on a reel for about £25.
I still use and love my cat5e cables. 20p/m![]()
out of curiosity - what systems are you guys using with expensive cabling?
ive seen some ****** systems with expensive wiring before and never understood it. £10/m cabling, QED airlocks on a £100 speaker never makes sense to me. (not saying you guys have bad systems, im just curious)
Currently a full Arcam FMJ setup via AV amp, power amps, DAC etc. All cables are Chord and DIY mains cables (2 Hydras, Buldrin cable, IEC's) and KEF speakers with BK sub