Speaker cable recommendations


I have a Hegel H-390 and Dynaudio Heritage Specials which have great synergy. Any recommendations for speaker cables that maximize that synergy? I am hoping to find a cable that is also a good balanced solution price wise as opposed to a cable that retails for as much as the two components. Thanks for any help with this first world problem , as I do feel really blessed to have finally found such a great sounding system after my 55 years of enjoying my stereos.

 

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Start with lamp cord and get them working.
It’ll at least give you an affordable base line.

@wilson3 .."as I do feel really blessed to have finally found such a great sounding system"...

 

What cables are you using now? What’s not working for you now? Your speakers are $7k retail, right? Best to answer member @spenav ’s question first to get help.

Depending on what guidelines you follow, i.e. 15% is just over a grand on speaker cables. If you are looking for a simple baseline, sorry, the HomeDepot zipcord gimmick is unshielded low grade twisted copper with no dialectric, junk, sounds grainy, unresolving, a total waste of time and $ imo. If you have nothing now, you could at least start with Cardas 101 speaker cable for $6.75 per foot as a baseline test. They can’t make the stuff fast enough. A cheap start option. Keep speaker cable length short to save $. Perhaps you can reveal your max budget first if you don’t want to send yourself and others in a tailspin asking general synergy questions.  

 

 

Can't go far wrong with audioquest type 4....audio advisor will make you a pair however you like. Balanced/neutral cable for not a lot of money

 

GR Research has some excellent cables. 

If you’re willing to add your own connectors, Monoprice offers some excellent low cost bulk cables that will rival many of the big brands.

Can't go far wrong with audioquest type 4....audio advisor will make you a pair however you like. Balanced/neutral cable for not a lot of money

My goto standard. 

 

If you have nothing now, you could at least start with Cardas 101 speaker cable for $6.75 per foot as a baseline test. They can’t make the stuff fast enough. A cheap start option. Keep speaker cable length short to save $. Perhaps you can reveal your max budget first if you don’t want to send yourself and others in a tailspin asking general synergy questions.  

+1 

The Cardas, Mogami, or a handful of others have decent cables, and add in ends from a variety of manufactures and it gets to be a large number of combinations.

And then without some budget it is going to be looking like a snake pit of cable suggestions.

I've got some Morrow Audio SP6 cables which I am very happy with, running between PS Audio M700 monoblocks and Wharfedales...you're right about the synergy, but you won't know until you try, and they will let you return them if you're unhappy w/them.

I agree w/the poster above who said the lower level AQs are not really very good, esp their speaker cables.

If you wanna spend more money, look into VooDoo, SR, and/or Shunyata.  I have some Syn Res interconnects, and they are fantastic. Ditto for VooDoo