Deep Singh

Hi.

I've got someone booked to come around and lay some speaker cable under the floor boards for me prior to room redecoration. Just realised the cable I bought from Richer Sounds (miles away from house) is too short!
Need to pick up some more tommorrow but don't want to travel ages to RS. Is there any high street/retail park type shop that will sell medium level cable? Its for a Denon microsystem which will have the speakers upgraded.

There is a Maplins not too far away.



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mart360

Where abouts are you? i have some lengths of qed 79 strand in the garage , not huge lengths mind, but may do as a quick fix

Mart

kbsub

I bought some QED micro from the local Hi-fi shop , surely you must have a decent Hi-Fi place nearby , other than that what about Comet and the like .

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Just get normal 70 strand QED, any hi-fi shop should have it, failing that, decent quality flex is better than the stuff that comes with most kit.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Comet and Currys both sell reasonable stuff.

Alcazar

Vegescoob

Don't join two different types. Get new of right length and take RS stuff back.
Yes Maplins ok, they have a range of cables.
The speakers you are getting, will you want to biwire them, assuming they have biwire terminals? If so get the right cable.

Seamaster

QED 79 will be as good as thye will ever need. maplins stuff is fine. This is Denon not naim !

Iwan

Since you're not talking about really high end, Halfrauds or most other Car Audio places sell reasonable OFC speaker cable off the reel which you could use.

Deep Singh

Mart, thanks for the offer but I need quite a bit.

Thanks for all the advice. Just discovered there is a Sevenoaks hi fi store not a million miles away.

Vege, don't all speakers have two terminals?

mart360

nope mine have 4 some even have 6!!!


Mart

Shark Man

This is where I make any audiovile go queesy:

My monitors for the lounge/dining room/kitchen are wired with 10amp 2 core mains flex And thats for a proper system with 2 tons of amplifier

ru'

+1 for heavy duty flexible mains cable

Deep Singh

Thanks bought some QED stuff from Sevenoaks.

Vegescoob

Pray, please tell me, what is vile about an interest in audio reproduction?

Shark Man

It's my personal differentiation between a geniune audio enthusiast and a person who thinks good Hi-Fi is spending thousands on snake oil

Vegescoob

Like it.
Think of all the jobs though.
"Sell the sizzle".

rgv_stu

well im another not for paying ridiculus amounts for speaker cables, i just use pro-audio ofc cables with neutrik speakon connectors. the last ones i got were 2.5mm core x10m with connectors £7.50. plenty good enough and is easy to disconnect should needs be. well worth fitting the speakon sockets to my hifi speakers

OllyK

I use twin and earth 1.5mm and it works just fine. I read an interesting article recently that explained that so much of what it spoken about with regard to speaker cables etc is complete guff.

kbsub

I read an article in What Hi-Fi mag a month a so back , And they got 4 volunteers to listen to a Home cinema system with different grades of speaker cable , and basically the dear stuff just sounded louder .
I think you have know your set up inside out to hear any benefit from £5/6 a metre cable . I used QED micro just because it goes under skirting boards ,round fireplaces and up walls a lot easier and looks more discreet .