Midrange heavy speaker cables, any recommendations?


It's fair to say that most all of my components are of good quality, are properly isolated and have a quite neutral personality. However my newer loudspeakers are a little on the bright side compared to my previous Dynaudios; and rather than swapping out components that have served me well I've changed speaker cables twice in an attempt to restrain the smoothly accurate, but somewhat abundant, top end. Rather than continuing cable experimentation I thought I'd throw the matter out there and get some feedback from my brothers out there the HiFi cosmos.

Any recommendations for reasonably priced (under $500) cables that have a more prominent midrange without compromising transparency and top end performance?

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If my finger would hold up for more than 15 minutes at a time, I’d do it for ya.

Somebody help jetter out here. :-) Let me think

OK.. BUT the terminal ends are actually the most important part. I have two mom and pops in China I’ve used for a few years. 5-14 days to make and ship. I change the terminal ends though. I get them at a different place.. My combo works pretty good to tell the truth.

red copper terminal ends and pick a cable, I cold weld or use screws NO Solder.
Add armor if you like (I don’t usually) check for the way the wire went through the dye, add an arrow, add shrink tube and cook the heck out of the whole shebang for 2-4 weeks.

 

You can give them a shot without changing the ends too. they are still pretty good. Better than eatin’ bugs.. Though my chickens might disagree!

Regards

I would try single runs of solid core copper.

 

I use 26 gauge for <12’ runs, but you could go down to 20-22 gauge.

 

I couldn’t find Neotech in 22 gauge (which I would like for a spare bedroom system I plan on putting together), but PC has 20 guage in stock (2 single runs per speaker).

 

There should be other less expensive option (just to try out).

 

 

 

DeKay

 

PS:

 

Just found it @ Sonicraft

 

https://www.soniccraft.com/product_info.php/neotech-solid-upocc-copper-in-teflon-22-awg-red-p-1587

 

Thanks for all the feedback, guys. In response to the issues you've raised; my current loudspeakers are Quad L22 towers and a Mirage BPS150i sub. And yes, the Quads are more transparent and more revealing than the Dynaudios were. Overall, they blend well quite with my system. I'm not looking for a dramatic suppression of the top end, just a slight decrease in output. I have over a 1000 hours on the Quads.

I'm currently using Wireworld Oasis 8 cables which replaced the Morrow bi-wires I ran for 500 hours. The Morrows' were a bit more open and transparent, but I found the to be overly revealing high frequency-wise somewhat at the expense of midrange presence.

My initial thought before I posted this query was that my next step was either Cardas or MIT cables. Having used both brands before my thoughts were that both brands would bring me closer to the midrange bloom and top end attenuation I was looking for.

I will consider all the options you have provided me and I thank you for your valued opinions. Other perspectives and opinions are more than welcome.

 

 

Except for convenience why terminate speaker wire?  Aren't you just adding two additional connections into the stream?

If your constantly swapping wire I can see it but for me speaker wire is set it and forget it. Do terminal ends improve sound quality?