Speaker cable - Advice needed!!!!

Little_John

Buying a stripper? whos birthday is it? Just use some cutters or a knife run round the caseing not cutting the wire and twist the end off.

Personally I would buy equal lengths, if you find you get a delay it will annoy the hell out of you more than if your speakers are positioned incorectly. Think about it if you need to replace the 6m cable with 12m cable you need to buy 12m not another 6 to stick on the end. same with the rears you don't add another 3m to the 10m you buy another 13m. uncovered wire oxidizes over time and condictivity reduces that is wy you dont join wires.

Again with the stereo wires you get what you pay for with interconnects the cheapies of ebay will have little if any sheilding so you will need to be carefull when it comes to positioning them. I know people keep saying buy cheap I have bought cheap and replaced with better and you do notice a difference get off to a good start and you save money in the long run.

MercilessKiller

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STEREO-AUDIO-CABLE-3-5MM-JACK-PLUG-TO-PLUG-15M-GOLD_W0QQitemZ160130752051QQihZ006QQcategoryZ31492QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

I was thinking of just buying 3 of them.. that way I can just move the control center and sub and the speaker wire will all fit as is..

That shouldn't make a great difference right?

Paul_-C-

I've bought some cables from cable universe before and been impressed by them. They sell good quality stuff at good prices

MercilessKiller

ive bought the 3 3.5mm 15m stereo cables from ebay

I'll simply play a song, in the middle switch the cable, and then i can see for sure if theres much diff

epninety

Little_John wrote: »

Personally I would buy equal lengths, if you find you get a delay it will annoy the hell out of you more than if your speakers are positioned incorectly.

The signal travels in the wire at 300,000,000 m/sec, approximately.
Let's say you made one speaker wire 10m longer than the other. The signal gets delayed by 33nSec, thats 0.000000033 seconds.

The speed of sound in air is approx. 300m/sec, so that's equivalent to you moving away from the centre point between the speakers by a distance of 0.01mm. You obviously have much better hearing than me :-)

There are reasons why mismatched lead lengths *might* alter the sound. Delay is not one of them.

Some fat two core mains lead is usually cheaper than anything thats says 'speaker' on it, and you'd usually struggle to tell the difference. Do get the polarity right though, your speaker won't care but your ears will.

elite_2

MercilessKiller wrote: »

in fact thats def the way forward.. 3 15m 3.5mm stereo cables for the main pc speakers and rearranging my system...

I just need to be 100% sure that I won't lose quality

Looks like a plan to me... :beer:

MercilessKiller

Wehey sounds like i havent made such a bad choice lol! Ill be glad once its all finished.

The only prob i have is where to put the speakers.. got a tv in the corner of the room and a couch on the wall and a couch with one side on the other wall... ah well.. as long as its loud

MercilessKiller

UPDATE: Well, cables came today (nice and quick from ebay too)

Will be going home to re-arrange my system, plug in new cables, hook it up to sky box.. will let ya know what it sounds like tonight ^-^

cinemat

A bit late to post this as you've already sorted your cable out but there's a lot of info on CAT-5 cable for speakers.

If I haden't spent £££ on Monster THX stuff for my home cinema, I'd be making these at a fraction of the price. http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/diycables.html

MercilessKiller

Seems a bit too complex for me. I mean, trying to do my CISCO CCNA, while working, is stressful enough