Dec 27, 2002 · I made some pretty good speaker cables by taking three strands of cat5, braiding them, and hooking the striped ones to the red jack and the non-striped to the black jack. This gives you all the benefits of twisted pair (ie, noise cancellation) and a …

May 8, 2002 · Like the author of this thread, I noticed that Stereophile's Recommended Components List this year included the following in the speaker cable section: Radioshack 18-gauge solid-core hookup wire: $3.99/60 ft. spool "Ridiculously cheap way of connecting speakers, yet ST reports that this cable is okay sonically.

Apr 6, 2022 · I am attempting to replace all the speaker wire connections in my HT (7.1) with Canare 4s11 wire, locking banana connectors on the amp side and spade connectors on the speaker side. I am using the the 4 wire Canare wire as 2 wire, doubling up the connectors red+white and pink+clear.

Oct 23, 2006 · The proposed flat speaker cable has the following pros: + has good electrical characteristics - low and controlled capacitance, low resistance and low susceptibility to interference (loop cross section is small because wires are close) + easily fits under carpets + even easier to make than the Cat5 speaker cable Cons:

Dec 28, 2006 · Go down to the bottom of the Tweak threads and you'll see one titled "Speaker cables are done. " I answer all of your questions about the heat shrink. I should add, use 1/8" for the single 14g wires though. www.Markertek.com and www.cableorganizer.com are good sources for the cable, connectors and heat shrink. Hope this helps.

Oct 11, 2007 · I recommend the Belden speaker cable from Blue Jeans Cable. It's priced very well, in-wall rated, and they'll cut it to length. It's especially cost effective if you need more than a 100' roll but less than a 250' or 500' roll.

Jul 16, 2008 · Will you be able to hear better sound wih Cat 6. Yes YOU will. The rest of us poor saps will stick with speaker cable. That table shows that Cat5 tested better in that test.And it was just his opinion, I quote from the page"So, here before you, I give you my opinion on which of these cable is the best" end.

Apr 1, 2007 · Routing and terminating the speaker cables was easy, but I ran into a snag with the subwoofer cable. I decided to recycle an AR subwoofer cable I had by cutting off the old connectors ,routing this cable under the floor and terminating it with WBT RCA sockets. The AR cable is a dual conductor cable with foil shielding.

Nov 14, 2018 · Subwoofers: 1 MiniMarty um18 w/NX3000D. 4 diy Slim VBSS 18" Subs w/NX3000D. ... SVS Ultra Speaker Cable ...

Jun 27, 2005 · Cable length is 8 ft. 14 AWG has .00251676 ohms per foot resistance. Bi-wiring with a second 14 AWG wire would drop resistance in half to .00125838 ohms, which happens to be the same resistance as 11 AWG wire.