Yes. Buy any 14awg or larger braided copper cable and you will be fine. Chuck Hinton, McIntosh Labs technical rep -- and these people KNOW high-end audio, and practically invented it -- once told me he uses 14 awg low voltage outdoor lighting cable from Home Depot. Alan Shaw, the CEO and designer of Harbeth speakers -- amongst the best in the world -- uses generic orange outdoor electrical extension cord cable. A very well known speaker reviewer for TAS (Robert Greene) uses generic cable.
The fact of the matter is that cables don't really matter -- no matter what the placebo effect some people experience. If anything, some of the more expensive cables actually manage to make frequency shifts. This can change the sound, yes, but is that a good thing? Will you listen to marketing hype, or will you listen to respected, serious companies like Harbeth and McIntosh? Personally, because I'm too lazy to crimp stuff myself, I use 10 awg speaker cable from Blue Jeans Cables. Very reasonably priced and 24hr turn-around on orders. I think it comes out at 70 center or so per foot, not included terminations (spades or whatever). Workmanship and materials are absolutely top-notch (the the Belden or Canare cable used are, ahem, used in lots of other stuff). I compared it against Analysis Plus Oval Nines, Acoustic Zen Satoris, and Dimarzio M-PATHs -- all of which I bought out of curiosity -- and there as no significant difference. If you want a real difference, look up the Allison rules (very easy) for speaker placement and work on proper speaker placement, alignment, etc. Save some money for CDs! -- highdudgeon SB3->Lavry DA10->Nuforce 9.02s->Harbeth Monitor 30s/Skylan stands. Simple and satisfying. In a larger room, I would move back to larger speakers, subs, and probably RCS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27857 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
