Cheapest speaker cable with best bass

Take a look at what REL provides for their speaker level connection.

As a Rel B3 owner I thought wire is wire since the Rel has such a high impedance. But after reading a lot where some folks said it made no difference and others said it made all the difference I decided to try a Nordost Baseline. It did make a huge difference over that aluminum cable that came with the B3. Better attack and decay. It cleaned up a muddy sound I didn't think was there.

That being said I'm stating my thoughts based on Rel ownership with the stock Rel cable not any other brand.

Take a look at what REL provides for their speaker level connection.

Another great post by Al!

In a more pedestrian vein, SignalCable are said to have good bass, and are comparatively cheap. I've had a pair of SCs in my system for some time, and think them pretty good, though I don't have an opinion on the bass issue.

John

The speaker-level input of a powered sub is the input to the sub's amplifier, having very high impedance (probably many thousands of ohms), as opposed to the input of a passive speaker having very low impedance (4 or 8 ohms or thereabouts). Therefore the cable will be conducting miniscule amounts of current, and you don't need a heavy gauge cable that is intended to drive a passive speaker. Also, I would not expect a high degree of correlation between the bass performance of a given cable in a speaker application, and its bass performance in a powered sub application, since the technical factors are so different.

My suggestion is that you research past threads on "subwoofer cables."

Regards,
-- Al