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OMG I did it I placed my order for the m60s!! I'm in quite a frenzied state so let me borrow your minds. What do I do about cables?

This should be good!

buy some, if you dont have any!!!

for real, if you are talking about speaker cables, then just get a good 12 or 14 gauge wire depending on how long you are running it.

now depending on who you talk to, and what forum you are in, you will get about 20 different opinions on speaker wire. my general belief is that, as long as you get a good 12 gauge, you cant go wrong. you can get a good quality 12 gauge at home depot for $.30 cents a foot.. a lot of installers in this forum will back this up..

now if you want to feel as though you are getting the 'BEST' and got the money, then sure, go get monster, or any of the other name brand wires.. i personally think they are WAY over priced.. and in a side by side study, i would bet you could never tell the difference between monster or $.30 cent home depot..

good luck, and dont sweat the small stuff..

bigjohn

Well i for one would rather have the Higher end cables but go ahead an get u some of the Cheaper stuff try that out if u like it stay with it , remember it is your Ears so listen an see what u think, if u wanna try something Higher end jus to ease your Curiosity then do it . But what i think u should do is get your 60's U dawg lol but get the cheaper cable listen for a few months b4 u decide if u want to upgrade or not

Get some home depot 12 ga. It's as good as funky expensive stuff.

Plug and listen. Make sure your neighbors aren't home and blast it. what are you hooking them up to?

Hey Ravi, I will be hooking them up to a Denon 1604-music only. I have some 16 ga at home that I used with the bookshelves that I was auditioning earlier but I don't suppose that would work with the m60s.

There is a home depot right where I live so I think for now I will go with that...

These three days waiting for them to arrive is going to be pure agony.

Roti, your present 16ga wire will work fine if the length of your run isn't more than 30' or so, which isn't likely for front speakers. The new M60s don't need new wire; the electrons don't wear out. Don't waste your money.

JohnK's got it right (again).

In fact your old wire may be better since the electrons in the wire have been jostled sufficiently from repeated use and are no longer clinging tightly to their copper nuclei. This electron loosening process allows the audio signal to travel more smoothly over the wire, and is otherwise known as cable break-in.........

Oh lordy. You can probably safely ignore the second part of that post...

Yeah. These guys in a white van at the mall told me all about electrons and copper wire. They said they had that kind of wire in their $2000 speakers they would sell me for as much money as my atm card would let me take out in a day....

;-p

jr