Cables for high-efficiency speakers? (Tweaks)

by JAM , Tuesday, February 03, 2009, 11:15 (5558 days ago) @ madprofessor

Hi!

Been listening to horn systems now for the last 10 years. My own personal experience so far:

- as Bert says, sensitive speakers reveal maybe even more minute details differing from cables than "regular" dead speakers, so choose wisely.

- an important thing is to have speaker cables not very likely to pick up RF noise and other nasty types of interference. Absolute best way is to have no cable at all, or, in other words, keep it as short as possible! And the two strands at a distance from each other, if possible.

- Silver works. I tried some DIY 4 mm sq. ones with silk, oil and Teflon, and compared to some very expensive flat cables (name witheld) they basically equalled or outperformed these (and saved a friend some 12.000 Euro's)

- Keep it simple. I strongly recommend Duelund cables. No hype, excellent performance/price. In fact, unbeatable performance/price in this crazy game...