DIY Speaker Cable Results!
dkg999
Posts: 5,647
Thanks to all the help from this forum, I got all my speaker cables built and installed this last weekend. Using the Belden cable from bluejeancables.com and building jumpers to replace the metal jumpers on the RTi70 and CSi40 made a real nice improvement in sound. The whole soundstage seemed to open up and had a lot of depth added. I then added in an HK PA2000 power amp in bridged mode to power the RTi70's and an Outlaw M200 to power the CSi40. Even at the lower volumes I listen at due to living in an apt., you could hear a large improvement in the sound. Taking the load of the three front channels off of my Yamaha HTR5660 seemed to really improve the performance of the rear 3 channels. I did have a little trouble getting the front center to balance out at the same level as the other channels, the M200 really needs a gain control. The M200 is probably a little bit over-kill for the CSi40, but picked it up cheap from someone who wanted to go with B&K amplifiers. I'm pretty impressed with the sound from the Outlaw amp, might have to look into more of their stuff.
DKG999
HT System: LSi9, LSiCx2, LSiFX, LSi7, SVS 20-39 PC+, B&K 507.s2 AVR, B&K Ref 125.2, Tripplite LCR-2400, Cambridge 650BD, Signal Cable PC/SC, BJC IC, Samsung 55" LED
Music System: Magnepan 1.6QR, SVS SB12+, ARC pre, Parasound HCA1500 vertically bi-amped, Jolida CDP, Pro-Ject RM5.1SE TT, Pro-Ject TubeBox SE phono pre, SBT, PS Audio DLIII DAC
HT System: LSi9, LSiCx2, LSiFX, LSi7, SVS 20-39 PC+, B&K 507.s2 AVR, B&K Ref 125.2, Tripplite LCR-2400, Cambridge 650BD, Signal Cable PC/SC, BJC IC, Samsung 55" LED
Music System: Magnepan 1.6QR, SVS SB12+, ARC pre, Parasound HCA1500 vertically bi-amped, Jolida CDP, Pro-Ject RM5.1SE TT, Pro-Ject TubeBox SE phono pre, SBT, PS Audio DLIII DAC