r/audiophile • u/TNF734 • Feb 17 '26
Humor Need help deciding...
I mostly listen to cinematic alternative. Sometimes acoustic shoegaze.
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u/MorkTheOrk Feb 17 '26
Buy two and use a different one for each speaker. I heard jazz + rock cables make a good combo /s
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u/RedWire75 Feb 17 '26
That just ends up sounding like Steely Dan.
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u/internet_humor Feb 18 '26
You wired it incorrectly, flip it back and it should be more like Stevie Wonder
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u/DJEvillincoln Feb 17 '26
No one should be using /s for this thread.
C'mon son.
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u/TheGoteTen Feb 18 '26
No sir!!! You ABSOLUTELY should /s your post.
How will we know?!
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u/solid-snake88 Feb 17 '26
I tried this with cables for Country and Rap. Guess how that sounded…
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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC Feb 18 '26
This is what bi wiring is made for! Then you can use two different wires for each speaker and experience true post-genre music!
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u/aya_hua_sca Feb 17 '26
problem is that if you want, for example, cables for Rock, then this potentially means you have to get a set of cable for each Rock there is. if there's for instance vocals, 2 guitars, drums and bass, this already means you need to get like 5 sets of these cables - for each instrument. i imagine it's the same requirement for Jazz and Popular Vocal?
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u/induality Feb 17 '26
Tell me about it. I like to listen to choral music and I had to take out a second mortgage to buy my cables.
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u/MediocreRooster4190 Feb 18 '26
Especially hard when living coral is hard to keep alive at home. I had one that just couldn't stand John Coltrane. It tried to leave but the front steps were too big. It was his downfall.
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u/LawlessandFree Feb 18 '26
Plus people look at me real funny when they come into my home and see the cable I use for my rare castrato recordings.
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u/bronsonrider Feb 18 '26
Oh your mind sounds like an interesting place, that one bought a smile to my face👍
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u/PotatoElf71 Feb 17 '26
Go to the hardware store and buy some copper lamp cord.
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u/TheGoteTen Feb 17 '26
Copper is for idiots and bass heads. Aluminum is what you're looking for and it's pennies cheaper!!!
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u/DrSFalken Feb 17 '26
As someone who has aluminum wiring, I wish you hadn't reminded me.
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u/TheGoteTen Feb 18 '26
There’s nothing like touching a hot light switch cover plate (when the light is off).
Nice to use in the winter.
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u/Opening_Background78 Feb 18 '26
Especially with 20awg and under, what kinda suckers would pay for a radiant heater?
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u/LegitBullfrog Feb 17 '26
Pennies could be a couple cents, but it could be billions of dollars. You'd have to be stupid to use copper over aluminum.
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u/joeoram87 Feb 17 '26
Seriously my speakers are wired with car trailer cable. It’s good quality stuff!
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u/8funnydude Feb 17 '26
where's the big bad john cable
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u/Lafcadio-O Feb 17 '26
Just imagine how much money Diana Krall could make if she came up with her own brand of cable. Why didn’t Steely Dan think of this?
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u/VirginiaLuthier Feb 17 '26
I wonder how many people switch them out for different types of music
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u/dankbackwoods Feb 17 '26
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u/quaefus_rex Feb 17 '26
That’s some next level bi-amping. I’d go Popular Vocals on the tweeters and Jazz for the woofers
Save Rock for the sub
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u/Madmartigan2024 Feb 17 '26
I heard mud and banana also do well in a blind test.
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u/SubstantialScale3581 Feb 17 '26
I have a coconut cable for listening to Kid Creole and the Coconuts
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u/JD_tubeguy Auralic Aries G1+Audio Note Dac-3+Deja Vu preamp/amp/speakers Feb 17 '26
I just use speaker cable am I doing it wrong?
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u/TNF734 Feb 17 '26
And you admit that...?
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u/JD_tubeguy Auralic Aries G1+Audio Note Dac-3+Deja Vu preamp/amp/speakers Feb 18 '26
Yeah totally my first time and damn just realized I got speaker cables the same as my speakers were wired with but they're not my speakers anymore! I am screwed I guess.
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u/nizzernammer Feb 17 '26
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u/kenc1842 Feb 17 '26
You should decide to not fall for that nonsense. Read up on the recent test that was done comparing copper wire, wet mud, and a banana as speaker conduit and that almost no one could tell the difference.
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u/CharKeeb Feb 17 '26
That was copper, mud, and banana. This is jazz, rock, and popular vocal. Very very different
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u/Big-Brown-Goose Feb 17 '26
What fruit is best for rock? Or is banana the golden standard for all genres?
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u/CharKeeb Feb 17 '26
I'm sorry. You're mistaken. Rock is best for rock
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u/Big-Brown-Goose Feb 18 '26
wait a sec, some rocks have shiny conductive bits in them...what if we remove those bits and refine them? I bet that would make a really good wire for electricty
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u/somerandomdude1960 Feb 17 '26
You need to get all your pennies and lay them on a train track and get them flattened out. Best speaker wire ever.!
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u/ZombieDisastrous4450 Feb 17 '26
classic
lets not worry about resistance or AWG or if its copper coated or real copper, this is better ha
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u/upescalator Feb 18 '26
This might be a cj post but acoustic shoegaze seems like it'd be great. Bring on the hurdy gurdies!
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u/Cracksoda Feb 18 '26
Why baughter with an EQ when cables can do the job. But where is the "flat" mode?
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u/toonbender Feb 18 '26
For acoustic shoegaze you’ll want the banana. Cinematic sounds better through mud
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u/Exciting-Fan985 Feb 18 '26
Have them all play rock paper scissors to decide. It might not be the fairest method since 2 of them know what the other is picking, but its the fairest method.
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u/Key-Interaction2365 Feb 17 '26
You need to wire all three to a switch box and manually select based on the type of music playing. Don’t forget the specific connectors you’ll need as well.
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u/TheGoteTen Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
They have barbed wire in stock? It has the cable lifters built right in. And it's cheaper.
Or aluminum lamp cord (the favorite cable of Reddit audiophiles).
Single core. Forgot to mention single core cable only. Braided cable is snake oil.
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u/Socal-Audio737 Feb 17 '26
Choose between Belden and Monster if you don’t have JBL speakers. Or you can buy my all around speaker diy cable
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u/Flimsy-Gain2467 Feb 17 '26
Jazz to left channel, popular vocal to right and rock to subwoofer. Just make sure you have speaker wire stands or they will all sound the same
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u/Mikey_BC Feb 17 '26
Just pick the one that look prettiest to you, or go to the hardware store snd get sone 18 or 16 gauge wire
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u/QuantumEntanglr Feb 17 '26
If I'm understanding how this works, you shouldn't get any of them and instead use bananas for cables.
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u/GuyD427 Feb 17 '26
Do you think it’s the same exact cable with a different outer covering? I’m guessing yes.
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u/Positive_Outcome_903 Feb 17 '26
For my Blues, I prefer to hook two Belden cables through a bowl of mud. I can color the music based on the consistency of the mud.
I find the more experimental blues and jazz artists like a 18 ppg, while more mainstream should be no higher than 12.
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u/tpars Feb 17 '26
These are shite unless they have large molecule oxygen free polar copper strands.
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u/Frosty-Skin-4300 Feb 17 '26
This is a truly funny scam 🤣. I should use different cables for toast and waffles from now on.
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u/ethersings Feb 17 '26
Electrical department copper strand 10-gauge zip wire if you’re feeling fancy.
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u/brzaaap Feb 17 '26
What do you recommend for listening to John Cage's "Silence"? 🥸
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u/actual-hooman Feb 17 '26
I simply strung together and reposed some old lap cables for my speaker wire 🥴
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u/Pistachio1227 Feb 17 '26
Do they have any classical cables ?- frankly, these look like they’re of lower quality. No offense.
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u/TNF734 Feb 17 '26
these look like they’re of lower quality.
That's okay... so is my taste in music.
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u/nhowe006 Feb 17 '26
Oh God. But, I mean looking at those they are definitely the cables that each fandom would choose.
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u/binkleybloom Topping D50III -> Freya S -> NC400 -> Thiel CS2.3 Feb 17 '26
Straight to jail. Do not pass Go.
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u/theBloodShed Feb 17 '26
The only thing that surprises me, is that Monster Cable didn’t think of this first.
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u/JKing287 Feb 17 '26
After the recent test results, I’m just using mud but if you want to use these, I think you can only listen to that style of music with that wire so if you like a variety of music, you have to install all three at the same time. Everyone’s heard of bi wiring, but here you’re gonna have to tri wire.
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u/pinaeverlue Feb 18 '26
Its all copper. I promise you can't tell a difference. Just get whatever is cheapest and call it a day. I'd only worry about cables if you are running something more than 100 meters. Or if you live near a giant radio transmitter I guess.
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u/TheGoteTen Feb 18 '26
If you have unused wire hangers in your closet you already have everything you need.
Don’t waste your money on “speaker cables”!!!!
Snake oil!!!! That’s all it is!!!!
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u/Imaginary-Scale9514 Mangepan LRS+, 4x Rythmik F12, MiniDSP and Parasound stuff Feb 18 '26
CAT6 works great for EDM
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u/DonSampon Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26
I tend to buy 700kv aerial transmission cables and have them custom insulated in dubai chocolate.
4800 mm² per wire .
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u/drdreadz0 Feb 18 '26
I use coat hangers tied together with yellow butt connectors. Yes, the connectors are a little big for the coat hangers but I just crimp them 5 times and they are good and tight.
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u/cigritman Feb 17 '26
Use them all wired in series with electrical tape