Speaker cabling/wires
Discussion
I am going to put in speaker wire to run multiple room in-ceiling speakers (tbd) to sonos amps I will house in the loft. A friend who was big into hi-fi used to bang on about not all speaker cables being equal and would spend a fortune on gold plated type stuff that was eye-watering per metre. Before I buy, is it all snake oil, and will any speaker cable do the job just as well as the crazy expensive stuff?
darreni said:
I’ve had a delivery of this stuff (thanks for the link). Will be ‘first fixing’ it into the house tomorrow, the next question will be ceiling speakers…..I like B&W but seems much of the good stuff is out of stock.
M1AGM said:
darreni said:
I’ve had a delivery of this stuff (thanks for the link). Will be ‘first fixing’ it into the house tomorrow, the next question will be ceiling speakers…..I like B&W but seems much of the good stuff is out of stock.
We are firmly into 2nd fix and floorings, so I couldnt wait any longer to get some celing speakers in and tested.
After speaking to Richer Sounds I went for the pair of Monitor Audio C280 in the smaller part of the kitchen, with a pair of C265 in the large area (its about 50sq m and very high ceiling). Also have another pair of the C265 for when the lounge is ready to be done. Each pair is connected to a Sonos Amp in the loft, and although I have not done the proper sound setup on them yet, on first impressions the sound seems to be rather good.
One question. The speaker cable runs to the loft were left quite short by the sparky (only noticed this now ffs) and he admitted they'd not pulled enough through with hindsight, and offered to buy speaker cable extenders so it is not as tight getting to the amps. I'm a little reticent about using any sort of extender in case it degrades the performance, can anyone advise on this?
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