Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Bare Wire for Axiom speakers? Blue Jean Cable?

Hey guys. Slowly choosing each component of my HT.

What do you guys use to terminate your speaker wire on each end and could you just use bare wire on Axioms?

I have heard Blue Jean cable is really good and affordable and was wondering If anyone has used the speaker wire they sell.

Thanks again.

Bare wire - Axiom's 12 guage.

Home Depot stuff works fine. 14 guage will work for most short runs.

bare.....12 gauge spool from Ebay.

I used bare wire for 7 years. I recently bought some blue-jeans banana plugs to terminate the ends. Why? I'll be moving the gear around a few times in the next couple of years and wanted the convenience of banana plugs.

Just luck up on ebay or is someone selling it on a regular fashion? I could use an extra spool of the "good" stuff.

Hi Rat, when I was looking, I just searched for 12 gauge wire on ebay and found some place that sold in 500' spools for around $20-25. It is very nice, oxygen free, speaker wire, with a red stripe on one side that makes it nice to maintain polarity. Since my 4 surrounds are 20 - 30' away from the AV closet, I needed some longer runs. This was all done before I drywalled and textured...

At least for the fronts, I would suggest some 10G speaker wire, and, I know that some may not agree, see if you can purchase a customized bi-wire cable. I got mine from SignalCable.com. You can also check CobaltCable.com, and of course, Blue Jeans Cable.

Zach, speaker wire performs the necessary, but technologically trivial, job of serving as a piece of metal to guide the electromagnetic wave between the amp and speaker. Any wire having reasonably low electrical resistance and inductance over the distance involved is "real good". This is an area of audio infested by charlatans selling wire at outrageous prices and making claims that are without a factual basis. Blue Jeans is a reputable company and not outrageously priced, but as some of the other replies have indicated, you can spend considerably less. If you haven't studied this article and table on speaker wire by a well-respected veteran audio professional, it would be worthwhile to do so.

blue jeans is great. I've bought raw bare speaker wire from them as well as most of my interconnects. For the quality cables they sell, their prices can't be beat.

Sir: thanks! I'll do a search on ebay and see what I can find.

I thought that I had some wire left from the spool that I bought 7 years ago. But, alas, I could not find it. Maybe I used it all or maybe one of the kids "borrowed" it. LOL!

Thanks again for the information.