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First System Advice on Cables

This is my first system. I'm on a budget and have purchased all the equipment used. I would appreciate any advice on all the required cables. All I have presently is the OEM power cords. The parasound equipment has XLR interconnects. So far all I have looked at were from Signal Cable because they appear to be in budget.

Two channel System:
Parasound A21 amp
Parasound P3 pre-amp
Revel M20 speakers

In addition, I'm presently trying to find a matching player.

I appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance,
gtalleycm
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foster_9
1,638 posts
 
I second bluejeans cable, which I use.
gtalleycm OP
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Wow! I really appreciate all the helpful responses. Now I will compare price, quality and resulting sound each of the possibilities offer. I never realized different cables would produce different sound qualities. Again, many thanks to all.
timrhu
2,779 posts
 
Benn listening to the M-20s for a few weeks now. They are exceptional monitors. I'm using inexpensive DH labs cables, shotgun Silver Sonic T-14 speaker cable and the very inexpensive Silver Sonic BL IIs. Nice cable for the $.
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audphile1
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I highly recommend you check out bluejeanscable.com XLR interconnects. They use very good connectors(Neutric) and pretty good quality wire. They compared very nicely to a much more expensive Audience AU24 XLR interconnects in my system.
I am actually using a relatively long run(11ft) of bluejeans RCAs now from phono stage to my preamp with very good results and it blends fine with my other much more expensive cables. As far as speaker cables, I would recommend, if you go with XLR interconnects, to invest most in a good speaker cable.
Some sp. cables to consider are lower end Synergistic Research, Purist Audio(Meauseus), even Monster M2.4. Also, the word is Anti-Cables are good, but I never tried, so no opinion on that brand.
As far as power cords, put the best one on the source component and if this has to be the only power cord you can buy now, buy the best one you can afford.
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