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I don't know how new this price is, but it's certainly cheap for what seems like reasonable quality speaker cable (about 45 cents a metre). Same stuff is $42 at JB Hifi.
-edit: de-Americanised spelling
Studio Acoustic 30m 18GA Speaker Cable $13.40 at Bunnings
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For a short run of cable I doubt it makes much difference. Plus we're talking $129 for Monster cables from Harvey Norman, I'm sure it has its uses but this is cheap and does the job.
Pretty sure edwinlin88 was being sarcastic.. :-P
Its his own fault he's getting negged, Should of used sarcasm font!
Monster cables are an over-priced 'name' brand. All you need is a decent quality cable with low capacitance/m. Unless you are an audiophile who loves online e-penis contents, this cable is more than 'good enough'.
Down-voted because you didn't make any reasoned argument as to why the cable in the deal is 'shit'.
Ah yes, this old chestnut ;) Coathangers can be used as speaker cables without any audible difference whatsoever: http://gizmodo.com/363154/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cabl…
Personally I use 15A 240V extension leads but standard 10A leads would also be fine. They come in a range of colours including white, they have a nice round & tough sheath designed to withstand abuse (handy for when you're dragging wiring through a ceiling or walls etc.) plus it's cheap as crap!
How? Easy. Chop the plug & socket off each end and be sure to destroy the plug pins before throwing it away in case some brat kid pulls it out of the bin and decides to plug it into the wall as part of some Darwinian experiment. Trim the plastic sheath down to expose the three internal wires. Chop the green & yellow wire off completely and use the brown as positive and blue as negative or whatever you like… just be sure to use the same colour for positive and the same colour for negative at each end otherwise you'll get phasing issues and it'll sound awful.
Alternatively run two separate runs (one for positive & another for negative) and use all three internal wires for each run. Your system will look just as impressive with massive extension leads running to each speaker than friggin' over-hyped Monster cable.
You can also DIY some very fancy speaker wires from computer network cables (eg. Cat5), just Google it!
Trust your ears not the marketing! Even this stuff from Bunnings will be fine for most systems.
dupe.
Man all the downvotes clearly don't get it. edwinlin88 is on the money here, the Monster (tm) branded cables are the superior solution for all your audio needs.
I once got a set and found the sound wasn't clear and rich as advertised, then realised I'd installed them backwards, I changed them around so the arrows were pointing from the receiver out to the speakers and my god the clarity was like nothing else.If your speakers arent sitting in a custom sound isolation box with a fine grain sand base for scrap noise absorption, don't bother replying, you're just not at the level we're at.
If your speakers arent sitting in a custom sound isolation box with a fine grain sand base for scrap noise absorption, don't bother replying, you're just not at the level we're at.
Overkill much? I think you're on a level of your own mate lol
I had trouble with my Monster(tm) cables, but then I realised I'd accidentally made a turn sharper than 45 degrees as I rounded the leg of my couch! No wonder it sounded terrible, the audio was getting banked up on the tight radius bend. I increased the diameter of the bend to remove the restriction and voila - instant sound clarity.
I also found that by installing my amplifier slightly higher than my speakers, it allowed the audio to travel downhill more easily than being forced to go up to the high mounted speakers. While the gains weren't as noticeable as removing the kink, it did give an improvement to the high frequency especially - I guess bass travels more easily uphill than treble??
Installation is everything.
'just not at the same level we're at.'
and yet you installed your cables backwards? LOL!
trolled!
Better off getting the 14GA stuff instead, it's about $35 I think for 30m, but you can have longer runs with it (plus it's just a nicer cable) and is still a LOT cheaper than most of the others out there.
But in saying that, this is a damn good price!
Edit - sorry, $38 http://www.bunnings.com.au/studio-acoustic-30m-14ga-speaker-… but as I said, still a lot cheaper and good quality than anywhere else I've found.
Yeah, 14GA is also a good price, but this is phenomenally cheap, and I only needed a long run to cut into short segments so it suited me, I hope there are some others too. Better cables are great, but sometimes overkill.
Ah well there you go :-) for my install I needed 2x10m runs, so naturally using the 14GA was my best bet (plus the shorter runs for the two fronts and centre).
At my local they only had the longer runs with the 14GA, think the 18GA was only 6m ones, although this was a fair few months ago so might be new stock (or they were just out).
Still a very good price don't get me wrong! :-)
Better cables are usually overkill!
but you can have longer runs with it
For shorter runs, e.g. a typical lounge room, there is no point in the heavier gauge though.
Well my lounge room is a 'typical' one, but to run the rear left speaker I have to go around the edge of the room or else I'd end up with speaker cable running directly through my lounge room.
Compared to the price of this cable is the 14GA worth it? Maybe… Compared to majority of other cape out there and for the price, it's definitely worth it.
When I was researching cable I came across this site from google and just went off that. For $38 for 30m, it wasn't a 'waste'.
http://www.audioholics.com/audio-video-cables/speaker-cable-…
No need. Even if you used the whole 30 metres of 18GA cable it's resistance is only around 600 mOhms.
a metre is a measurement of length, a meter is a measuring device
So regional spelling is more important than capitalization and punctuation then?
Oops. Not a big fan of Americanised spelling myself either. Pity that one slipped in. Watch out, one day you'll make a similar mistake!
18AWG is a little thin, but you can bi-wire for this price.
Is there any advantage in doing so. As long as the signal is strong and insulated, what difference could it make?
I'm not sure of the merits of bi-wiring either. I'd generally prefer not to do that and just the the appropriate gauge of wire required instead.
thanks a lot for the post, I wanted to send my parents to get me some of this stuff and was having a hard time explaining it to them
Pretty decent deal, perfect for car audio installs! (might pick some up myself)
As for any audiophiles who believe that expensive cables can improve audio quality - science says otherwise, and you probably don't properly understand how analogue signals work. If you need a more accurate explanation of how cables work with relation to analogue signals, see here: http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm
this is shit compared to Monster cables