Speaker cable suggestions

[Macca]

[QUOTE=Jimbo;1348967]I use a SPOTFIRE speaker cable currently but it is very thick and inflexible and very expensive.[QUOTE]

I don't recall what I paid but I don't think it was that expensive? It was in the hundreds which I suppose is a lot for wire but given what you can pay out...

It isn't very flexible I agree. There's six separate cores of cable inside. Whatever the case it's massive overkill for a domestic stereo system. There's really no need to use something like that. I got it as a 'final' speaker cable with the promise to myself that there'd be no more.

[Jimbo]

I think mine was about £60 per metre. It probably is overkill and I have heard other cables I like as much if not better but not bothered to move on.

[vinyljunky]

Looks like I'm gonna get dnm speaker cable off a mate it's the flat ribbon type bit like nordost not sure on the model he didn't say heard some good things about these cables

[Lawrence001]

I don't think dnm made ribbon cable they were usually flat because the two cables were separated by a wide plastic bit. Report back if I'm wrong please.

[Macca]

I remember DNM solid core being a flavour of the month years and years ago.


Looks like there is a ribbon one now

http://www.dnm.co.uk/cables.html

http://www.dnm.co.uk/datasheets/Abou...ereoRibbon.pdf

[Lawrence001]

Thats the one I meant, it's not flat metal ribbon just normal wires seperated by a plastic ribbon. I think the Nordost is a flat metal cable or intertwined wires in a flat ribbon sheath so different to DNM, but I could be wrong.

[Macca]

I have some Cambridge Audio ribbon cables amongst my extensive collection. And one with the wide plastic ribbon in between like you describe but I'm not sure what brand that is. It's a known name but it's not DNM.

The ribbon cables looked very untidy, that's the only impression of them I can remember.

[Barry]

I have some Cambridge Audio ribbon cables amongst my extensive collection. And one with the wide plastic ribbon in between like you describe but I'm not sure what brand that is. It's a known name but it's not DNM.

The ribbon cables looked very untidy, that's the only impression of them I can remember.

There are several flat 'ribbon' cables available. All claim to offer sonic advantages, and all support their claims with spurious, erroneous and largely irrelevant theory.

All a speaker cable needs to have is low loop resistance and low loop inductance.

[struth]

think i had a set of those. no idea whether i sold them or not tho... think they were telerium or another good name. they were a bit unweildy

[walpurgis]

The DNM cable is similar in configuration to the flat cable used in FM radio indoor ribbon aerials, a pair of solid copper conductors separated by a few millimetres of flat plastic. I did try the flat FM aerial cable as speaker cable years ago, it sounded perfectly fine.

If I recall, DNM use their same flat cable for interconnects as well as for speaker use. Nordost have done similar things.