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mixing brands

Well, I know ad naseum this has been brought up,but allow me to ask anyway. I'm looking to change cable "brands" from Nordost to Kimber kable.
Do most of you folks have same manufacturer for spkr cables & interconnects? I would like to ultimately have all one "family" but prices dictate to first do the speaker cables--then as money permits--(ok-as wife permits) down the road I will get the icc as well. Any thoughts on mixing & matching at least for a while? thanks for reading..
shel50
banerjba
82 posts
 
Both Kimber and Nordost make cables at all price points.

My small Proac Tablette-based system is a full Kimber loom.

My Harbeth-based system is slowly working towards a full Nordost loom.

In both cases, I am using the budget lines and getting very good and even sounding results.

Kimber plays nicely with lots of other brands but as above I would say Nordost works best with certain brands (in my case Atlas and VHD) rather than others (Cardas and Transparent).
czarivey
5,721 posts
 
Banerjba, I'm snob and don't want to spend over $100 per pair of speaker or patch cables. Any Nordost cables(speaker or IC) below $100 per pair? Termination is optional for speaker wire.
banerjba
82 posts
 
Nothing for $100 from Nordost and the speaker wire is fairly pricey, even used.

At your price point, Audioquest has good options or buy used budget Kimber.
czarivey
5,721 posts
 
I know. I use Kimber unterminated 4TC for speakers. I've got remaining 8' of wire for $50 unterminated so having 4' runs per each speaker. When I had RCA unbalanced components I used AudioQuest Topaz.
wolf_garcia
6,628 posts
 
Most of my system is solid core AQ stuff bought used…Type 8 speaker, Cobra and Diamondback ICs…silver digital…and it all works really well together like a swarm of disparate bungee cords.
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