Re: Advice needed. Purchased Tons of stuff
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Using 12g with my m80s vp150 and QS8's. I purchased some speaker wire from bluejeans cable and some from monoprice. My sub cable came from blue jeans cable
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Re: Advice needed. Purchased Tons of stuff
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Here's the thing, your 18 guage cable might do the trick, so if you don't want to swap it out, more power to you. A 50 foot run is fairly long though, I would personally use 12 guage for them. In fact I do. I bought two 100 foot rolls of 12 guage wire from Monprice for $24 bucks each, how can you beat that? Down at my local HH Greggs they only sold Monster cable, it was $125 bucks for a 50 foot roll of 12 guage.
If you go through mono price you can purchase the thick stuff so cheap that you might as well get it 'just in case'. Now if there was say $100 dollars difference between the two guages then I'd say buy what you need, but at $24 bucks... come on, you can't beat that! And its plenty flexable, so don't worry about that.
Welcome, I can't wait to hear your impressions once you have everything set up. Do you already have a sub?
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M80's QS8's VP150 EP800 Denon 4802 Emotiva XPA-3 Samsung BD-P3600 Sharp 65 Inch Aquos LCD
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Re: Advice needed. Purchased Tons of stuff
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IIRC, I bought a 100' spool of 12ga speaker wire from Home Depot for something like $49, it's been a long while though. I don't even see it on their website anymore ... Home Depot speaker wireHere's what Lowes has ... Lowes speaker wireNow that I remember it actually may have been Lowes where I bought mine.
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Re: Advice needed. Purchased Tons of stuff
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That remembory gets tougher every year, huh Rick?
::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::
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Re: Advice needed. Purchased Tons of stuff
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I've bought a total of 50 foot 12g from Axiom. I know it cost a little more, but at least I have the assurance that it's good wire.
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Re: Advice needed. Purchased Tons of stuff
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Also can someone suggest a good site to buy the cables? Radio shack is unreasonably expensive. +1 for Monoprice. Super cheap and 100% functional cable. Micah's 100% right about the "just-in-case" theory. I've accumulated a mini audio parts warehouse in my basement of Monoprice cables, just-in-case. Very useful when a co-worker needs to borrow an RCA cable, or when a friend upgrades to an HDTV on Christmas Morning and forgot to pick up an HDMI cable. However, if you want slightly higher quality stuff*, check out Blue Jeans Cable . I've bought all of my speaker wire and most of my analog interconnects from them. I have always been very happy with the price & quality of the products. *For whatever the reason may be. Whether you believe it makes a difference in the sound quality, you just want nicer looking and/or feeling cable and connectors, or you just like spending a little extra money to support a small "mom and pop" kind of operation. I do not intend to start a "wire matters" discussion.
M80v2 | VP150v2 | QS8v2 SVS Pci+ 20-39 Emotiva UMC-1 & LPA-1 M22ti + T-Amp, in the Office
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Re: Advice needed. Purchased Tons of stuff
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I do not intend to start a "wire matters" discussion. TOO LATE! You can't just "throw down" like that and expect no challengers!!
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For starters, I'm going to say that 2 strand wire is better than 1 strand wire.
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For starters, I'm going to say that 2 strand wire is better than 1 strand wire. Only if it's sonically and acoutically "pure"
"A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" Churchill
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For starters, I'm going to say that 2 strand wire is better than 1 strand wire. If you're running enough power, you can arc to ground.
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