[yue]

I need to buy cables for the speaker i'm considering (budget floor standing speakers, $700-$800, Tannoy MX4 and System Audio 1130), both biwirable. I'll be using them with a Arcam AVR-100 receiver. I need recommendation for some inexpensive cables.

thanks

 

[Neruda]

the DH Labs Silver sonic Q10 has gotten great reviews, and is relitavely cheap. I believe it's in the vicinity of $150/8ft. Can't remember though.

 

[morphsci]

Check out Canare starquad 4S-8 speaker cable. You can buy it online at Markertek. You then have the option of how you want it terminated, can make it exactly the length you need and you save a pretty good chunk of change, at 0.41/ft you can get two biwire 8ft runs (32 feet) for $13.12 plus the cost of terminations, heatshrink, techflex, etc. Bottom line you should be able to do the 8ft biwire runs for under $25. Hard to beat and it sounds pretty good. Plus since it is already a four conductor cable you have a lot of flexibility in wiring it up. I actually use two of the four 16 awg conducters for each speaker connection thus giving an effective 13 AWG conducter. BTW, I use it on my den system to biwire a pair of Wharfedale 7.2 anniversarys to a pair of ASL waves using 12 foot runs. Sounds pretty good to me.

 

[dhwilkin]

The Q10 speaker cable is pretty good, but I'm not sure I'd call it a budget cable. What range were you looking at, anyways?

 

[yue]

probably $60 or less for a 8ft terminated pair.

 

[chych]

Have you considered the DIY route? You can make some excellent Cat5 speaker cables for that much, and it'll end up around $3.50 per foot

http://www.geocities.com/venhaus1/diycatfivecables.html

 

[jaskin]

How are the DIY cables?