RE: Looking for a whole house Audio cable recommendation

[Chris Langridge <chrisl@xxxxxxx>]

Mike, Thanks for this. So you're saying that if you run speaker cables from an amp across the house to 'decent quality' ceiling mounted or wall mounted speakers - mains cable is just as good as 42 strand OFC or any other dedicated audio cable?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Griffiths [mailto:mike@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 December 2001 23:36
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Looking for a whole house Audio cable recommendation

Chris my thoughts

Your main high end Hifi should go nowhere near Node Zero apart to feed aux feeds to and from

The Amp to Speaker distance should be reasonably short and it is this run that needs decent speaker cable

It's a case of diminishing returns but you can keep up grading this path until you can't hear the difference !!

You should also Bi wire this run

 

As to the normal speaker feeds round the house mains cable seems to work a treat, anything else I think is pure overkill as the high end audiophile aspects of multi-room speaker system are non existent

Just my 2d worth

Mike

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Langridge [mailto:chrisl@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Mon 03 Dec 01 17:30
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: [ukha_d] Looking for a whole house Audio cable recommendation

 

Can anyone give me some plain (non afficionado) advice on what kind of audio cable I need for running speakers back to Node 0.

 

42 strand oxygen free (OFC) has been mentioned. However my electrical wholesalers have come up with 50 strand x 0.25mm.

 

My understanding was that anything over 42 strand is overkill for jo public. Any recommendations? The prices do vary so much.

 

Also does it make sense to wire speakers back to node 0 AND to a points in the same room so as to make use of a DDAR?

 

Chris

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