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No debates: what speaker wires, cables or interconnects do you prefer and use?

Audioquest Volcano speaker cables and Cheetah interconnects, got them all from Audiogon in the past year in real nice condition...
 
interconnects: DIY made from twisted pairs of 30 ga varnish-insulated (copper) magnet wire.
Some of my DIY I/Cs are made from 75 ohm coax, instead.

speaker wire: DIY made from single or double runs of plenum-grade (Teflon-insulated) CAT5 network cable for tube gear.

Solid state: 18 or 16 ga "zip cord".
 
Stereo- Analysis Plus Oval 8 speaker cables and Solo Crystal ICs.
HT- Geortz MI3 speaker cables, and copper micropurl ICs, plus other ICs.
Jack
 
ehoove said:
How did the Knuconcepts compare to the low voltage wire 14Ga.?
Jim
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To be honest, these old rock n roll beaten ears really are hard pressed to tell the difference, but I'd probably give a slight edge to the KnuConcept twisted pair cable. I've since seen bulk spools of exactly the same wire offered on the Bay for what works out to be less per foot.
 
10 ga speaker wire bought on a bulk spool

Homemade interconnects using pro style 3 wire XLR cable and WBT gold plated RCA's or XLR's from Parts Express.
 
Cardas Neutral Reference for Phono to Pre

Harmonic Tech Truth link from Pre to Power

#18AWG Zip cord,bi-wired to speakers
 
For my tube/SET based main system; Final Labs ICs, single twisted pairs of CAT-5 sourced wire or Western Electric 3-strand Litz braids for speaker wire. All are solid core, thin gage copper with the FL and WE stuff cloth/silk covered.

I occasionally use Geortz MicroPurl silver, Van den Hul, MIT, various home-grown ICs and have a handful of exotic Digital ICs to try but I mostly forget about this stuff and enjoy using the above mentioned wires - just seem to work well with my system.

For my HT and bedroom systems I mostly use whatever I have laying around for IC's and various CAT-5 recipes for the speakers.
 
Speakers,14 ga. lamp cord. Homemade IC's with Belden 1694 coax +Canare RCAP CF5 rca's.
 
Speaker cable is Kimber.

IC for the CDP is DIY solidcore copper wire with twin returns, braded. I posted about this IC in the DIY CAT5 thread. For TT I have an cable that is nice, but I am not sure of the make, to the phono pre. After I have Straight Wire, I forget the model. Nice sound.

For all of my other system, I have various Monster Cable, both IC and speaker, that I think is nice for the price, Usually less than $5 for a IC or a lenth of wire.

A pic of the DIY cable
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For my speaker cable, I have some 18 (I think) gauge copper wire I picked up at Goodwill for $6.99/100 feet, and for my regular cables, whatever I have in the basement. Probably Radio Shack. My system isn't good enough to merit decent cables yet. :no:
 
Speaker wires
HF section Monster sigma retro
LF section Monster M2.2

Interconnectes
Monster sigma xlr
Monster M1000 RCA

Power cords
Monster powerline 400
 
Lets see...

Speaker wires: Acoustic Research 12 ga with the nylon centers, gold pins to the amplifier, and some big battery lugs for the speaker end. Speaker internal wiring is 12 ga automotive primary wire, and it splits off from the cross-over to 14 ga for the woofer, and 18 ga to the mids and tweeters.

The rest are all home made RCA cables (radio shack ends) with microphone cable.

The only exceptions are the video cable and Audio L-R cables from the Laserdisc to the TV (monster cable and Acoustic Research), and of course the PlayStation 2 uses it's own.
 
Transparent musiclink plus speaker and balanced IC's. For cd player to pre using the oem ones that came with the player (linn)

For the hometheatre QED silver anniversary biwired, ultralink, ixos component and ic's, transparent digital coaxial, and monster for the rears
 
I'm using Monster cable for the speakers and interconnects. So here is dumb question #1 from a new guy. All these wires and connects are at least 15 years old. Should I be changing to new stuff that is better now?
 
I beat you, my Monsters are older, around 20 years or so. Same for the Rat Shack Gold as well as VDH interconnects.
 
Speaker Cables: Kimber 8TC, Paul Speltz Anti-Cables

Interconnects: Kimber PBJ, Kimber Hero, Belkin PureAV Silver Series
 
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