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They have a few brands such as Mogami,Canare,Van Damme,Gotham. They are cheap and seem to be well made.I have a pair of the Mogami interconnects and I don't have any complaints.
Cheapest but good cables….
Ok, I’m setting up a little system, a Benchmark AHB2 and DAC3 HGC. I had old Kimber cables laying around but they are going to be too short. These are from 15 years ago and I’m sure they were good and expensive. However, I’ve been a bit skeptical about speaker cables and interconnects and was going to ask here if it’s all BS but I see an older thread where almost everybody agrees that quality cables are extremely important - duh, more money!
I don’t want to go overboard on twelve foot speaker cables but I don’t want to sell myself short neither after splashing out way more than I intended to on this system.
im looking for recommendations for the cheapest cables that I’ll barely hear a difference when comparing to expensive cables.
thanks in anticipation
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@jmac7 I am reposting my experience with Mogami Gold balanced ICs (same goes for Canare tested). I tried the Mogami Gold XLRs in my high end system between my $9K DAC and pre-amp. Oy vey! Yes, they sounded neutral, clean and clear. Great for recording studios I guess, not for home audio. My ICs with transformer XLR box and just using RCAs KILL the Mogamis. The Mogami Gold lack 3D soundstaging, depth and especially dynamic contrasts and tonal splendor. They are more akin to cardboard cutouts than live, breathing music. |
@thomastrouble I assume you like the Benchmark gear? So let’s review what Benchmark says. https://benchmarkmedia.com/collections/cables While it sounds like @jasonbourne52 doppleganger is working on their staff, I would assume that they know what to do for people running their gear better than random people opining. And therefore I would suggest you trust them more than you trust me or others. At some point the ravings need to be tempered. This is from the top of the URL:
And this is from the bottom of same URL:
Given you have their gear, why waste time getting random ravings? |
Furez FZ144AS 14-4 Here`s a snippet with some information about the cable "the primary design features of the Furez Advanced Series In-Wall Speaker Cable are the use of multiple gauge stranding within a rope lay design of high strand count 99.997% OFHC C10100 Copper and the use of quality foamed polyethylene insulation (FPE). The design yields a clean balanced sound". When I moved my component rack off to the side I needed about 25' Ft of cable per side. Had 8' ft AQ Rocket 44`s before the change and I`m not disappointed. Very pleased with the results |
Hi @celtic66
I would like to ask how the Duelund DCA 12 measures in terms of sound image wideness, detail and 3D when compared to the expensive cables? By the way the single wire has a different sleeving than the double wire. Duelund DCA12GA 600Vdc tinned copper multistrand power cord wire in Polycast sleeving
While the Duelund Dual DCA12GA tinned copper multistrand wire in cotton and oil
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I twisted the 14 gauge wires together which came out to 11 gauge. Would have been nice to have the 12`s but these sound just fine to me BTW...Anybody else having problems with constant "Page Unresponsive" notices ??
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Thats a descent awg for most applications...i sold off the last runs of 4/12 a while back...im hanging onto my last pair of 7'...and yeah sometimes un/re. The mogamis are full meal deal (8 awg)...using stand mounts and some of the lowend ive gotten on bass...hs wow.They are not a one trick pony though either.Avoutlet seems to have a bit of furez 14 left fwiw.Like the viablue dressup/tech flex for cables. |