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just setting up for the FIRST time...

hi, all - i'm new...and need to learn a little more...have been browsing for about 4 months and am in over my head . so i watched some threads and tried to read between the lines and start a new system on a careful budget. so here is what i have -- an onkyo tx-8511 and a pair of paradigm atom v2 speakers. now i am looking at speaker cable and have found numerous references to Audioquest F-14 speaker cable. would this be a good choice? the room we are setting up is very limited in what we can do, the space is very strange (den to loft / 45-degree ceiling) with no place to hide any cords except behind the 7-foot entertainment center. (the ceiling has no crawl space...it is the roof, literally). thanks for input, mona
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The Audioquest will work fine. The Atoms like a decent speaker stand (steel) with a little mass. Buy some poster board putty ($1.50 Office Depot), break up the putty and roll into balls with your hands, place a ball at each corner of the top plate of the stands, then center speakers over the plate and push down to set.

This room may be acoustically very strange. I tried setting up a room similar and gave up as the bass disappeared completely. Good luck.
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