Madisound Parts Express you can ask for help, they are quite helpful Speaker Wires: I buy Cat 5 or Cat 6 on eBay, SFTP (shield, foil, twisted pairs) (8 solid core pure copper strands) use nice WBT type spade connectors from Parts Express. Most are 26 awg, some are 24 and you can find pure copper, 22 awg. x 8 strands = 17; 15; 13 awg Quick search, I see a lot of 23 awg x 8 = 14 awg. combined wire gauge calculator I bought two colors, cut ends off, twisted them, taped every few feet. You need a bit of extra length to allow for the twisting you do to them.
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I would fall back on old HD10-3. I actually use it for my office system, I think it was in 2008 Stereophile just for fun they added some wire they bought from Home Depot... a 10 guage 3 conductor extension cord. Cut the ends off and tested it as speaker wire. It did surprisingly well. Not against high end stuff but against stuff like monster and radio shack. |
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Serious AWG OFC....
Chris has better copper.... https://www.vhaudio.com/wire.html
Canada really good... |
@artemus_5... Yes, in very tasteful orange and black. I must have got the 10 from what is currently recommended for direct lines. I remember looking a lot for the thicker gauge... most were I guess 16?
I took a quick search on Home Depot... There are lots of 12/3 and 10/3 extension cords available. Worth a try for those doing DIY. |
Parts Connexion has a variety of high end cables and plugs but I ended up using all silver plated Viborg from Amazon and Mogami from a variety of sources. I think I got the thin Mogami sound runner 2 conductor speaker cables from Parts Express and MarkerTek for the 4 conductor speaker cable. Replaced all my other high end cables easily. My experience with silver plated speaker cable is that it takes a while to break in and then sounds exactly like plain copper. OTOH, I use Parts Express branded solid silver / shielded and balanced conductors for my most important ICs. |
