Subwoofer Cables?

gcasey
gcasey Posts: 4
edited February 2009 in Subwoofer Hookup & Bass Management
Have a PSW111 sub arriving today. Have never owned a Sub before, but thought it might sound good with the Rti A5's I bought about 2 weeks ago. My Onkyo reciever has a Sub pre-out. What type of cables would I need for a quality hookup. I'm a little strapped for cash at the moment so I dont really wanna spend 50-100 dollars for some Monster cables. Can anyone recommend any cables or should I just wait till I get paid and get the expensive ones? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited February 2009
    Monoprice.com

    http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10236&cs_id=1023603&p_id=2682&seq=1&format=2
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited February 2009
    BTW, welcome to CP
    Speakers: SDA-1C (most all the goodies)
    Preamp: Joule Electra LA-150 MKII SE
    Amp: Wright WPA 50-50 EAT KT88s
    Analog: Marantz TT-15S1 MBS Glider SL| Wright WPP100C Amperex BB 6er5 and 7316 & WPM-100 SUT
    Digital: Mac mini 2.3GHz dual-core i5 8g RAM 1.5 TB HDD Music Server Amarra (memory play) - USB - W4S DAC 2
    Cables: Mits S3 IC and Spk cables| PS Audio PCs
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  • sandworms
    sandworms Posts: 1,043
    edited February 2009
    http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/subwoofer/index.htm
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited February 2009
    Mono's is just under $5, BJs is $24 to $36
    Speakers: SDA-1C (most all the goodies)
    Preamp: Joule Electra LA-150 MKII SE
    Amp: Wright WPA 50-50 EAT KT88s
    Analog: Marantz TT-15S1 MBS Glider SL| Wright WPP100C Amperex BB 6er5 and 7316 & WPM-100 SUT
    Digital: Mac mini 2.3GHz dual-core i5 8g RAM 1.5 TB HDD Music Server Amarra (memory play) - USB - W4S DAC 2
    Cables: Mits S3 IC and Spk cables| PS Audio PCs
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  • dborzz
    dborzz Posts: 87
    edited February 2009
    Monoprice is by far the most inexpensive and is a pretty decent cable. My psw111 sounded just fine with it when I had one.

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  • dborzz
    dborzz Posts: 87
    edited February 2009
    If you do wanna spend like 25 or so these guys have mentioned bluejeans cable and also on MIT cables discount page they have one of their lower end sub cables for 24 or 25 bucks which is a nice cable for a good price.

    http://www.mitcablesdiscount.com/mycart.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=226&category_id=21

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    Polk CS2-center
    Polk OWM3's-surrounds
    Polk Micro Pro 1000-sub
    PS3-blu-ray,gaming
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    Onkyo tx-sr606
    MIT EXp 1
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  • renowilliams
    renowilliams Posts: 920
    edited February 2009
    gcasey wrote: »
    Have a PSW111 sub arriving today. Have never owned a Sub before, but thought it might sound good with the Rti A5's I bought about 2 weeks ago. My Onkyo reciever has a Sub pre-out. What type of cables would I need for a quality hookup. I'm a little strapped for cash at the moment so I dont really wanna spend 50-100 dollars for some Monster cables. Can anyone recommend any cables or should I just wait till I get paid and get the expensive ones? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

    I just bought the PSW125 sub today for 299.00 cnd and am very pleased. I bought it here in Canada at Future Shop. I asked the salesman for the cheapest cable,which he informed me was 35.oo cnd. We went to get it and they were out,so he sold me the monster cable,which was priced at $95.00 for the 35.00. That was a score and I'm pleased all the way around.
    "They're always talking about my drinking, but never mention my thirst" Oscar Wilde


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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited February 2009
    I'll second the monoprice suggestion.

    Also, if you have a spare composite(yellow) video cable laying around, that will work fine as well. You'd still definitely want to upgrade it though eventually.
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  • kneedragger37
    kneedragger37 Posts: 108
    edited February 2009
    renowilliams wrote: »
    I just bought the PSW125 sub today for 299.00 cnd and am very pleased. I bought it here in Canada at Future Shop. I asked the salesman for the cheapest cable,which he informed me was 35.oo cnd. We went to get it and they were out,so he sold me the monster cable,which was priced at $95.00 for the 35.00.

    If this doesn't make a statement about the disgusting amount of profit built into Monster Cables, I don't know what does. As the owner of a retail business myself, I certainly don't have a problem with someone making a profit (especially myself :D) -- but it does show you what the cables are really worth and that as an educated consumer, there's no reason to spend that kind of money on most cables...
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited February 2009
    Welcome to Club Polk.
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