Can anyone identify this speaker cable?

[Tony01]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4237/35485500485_887ba39ba8_b.jpg

It's from my (deceased) father's set-up, and all I know about it is that "it was damn expensive" - that's a quote from my mother.

She has no need of the set-up, but any extra cash would come in handy. So, I'm trying to discover whether it's worth getting the cable out from under the carpet. There's probably c 10m in total.

[Marco]

Looks rather like 'custom terminated' Nordost Flatline, to me: https://www.hifix.co.uk/nordost-super-flatline-mk2-biwire-speaker-cable

Marco.

[walpurgis]

I've seen that cable before, but the maker's name escapes me at the moment. I do recall that it is rather exotic and expensive. I have Nordost Flatline, but that has a slightly different appearance.

I'm just wondering if it's Tara Labs or Transparent Audio or MIT. Those names spring to mind.

[Yorkshireman]

Looks a bit like some made by Merlin Audio.

[tim1750]

Looks like gortz cable to me

[YNWaN]

It looks like 'Red Dawn' which was one of the cables made before Nordost as we know it now was formed. I'll have a look and see if I can confirm.

[YNWaN]

http://www.highendnews.info/images/Nordost_red-dawn-speaker.jpg

When Nordost started selling in the U.K., nearly thirty years ago, they started with two speaker cables, Red Dawn and Blue Heaven. The RD was copper conductor based and the BH was silver and a bit wider. I see that Nordost have since reinvented Red Dawn and it looks rather different to how it did back in the day.

[walpurgis]

The cable in question is not Red Dawn though.

[YNWaN]

Fair enough - what is it then?

[walpurgis]

Fair enough - what is it then?

Dunno. But it has fewer cores than the Nordost.

[YNWaN]

I remember selling Red Dawn and you could see the individual strands pretty easily, there weren't that many.

[walpurgis]

Ten per side.