Best Deal Cables

gelinas

Has anyone used these cables before? I'm thinking of getting some of their bi-wire cables for my front speakers. I currently use the Belden 5000 from BJC. I know there will be a noticable improvement in looks but am wondering if I will be able to hear a difference. The Best Deal Cables would be roughly $100 to bi-amp both my left and right speaker. I'd get the banana plug terminations but here's a pic for refrence:




http://www.bestdealcables.com/c-16-bi-wire-speaker-cable.aspx

mufsoman

I have Best Deal Cable HDMI cables with the clever locking pin. They're great, but unfortunately never tried the audio cables. They're a small company and willing to work with you on custom lengths if needed. Very satisfied with the HDMI's.

gelinas

Yeah I saw that feature on their hdmi cables. It's cool, but I have not had any issues with my hdmi's popping off or anything. Do they have the same sleve as the speaker cables if so a pic would be cool/helpful

kawizx9r

I personally have no experience with this brand at all.

What I would like to add is that comparing an hdmi cable offered by these guys won't say much at all about their speaker wire.

If looks are important to you, I'd say make a pair yourself.
Kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and buy a pair used on here or audiogon....a pair that's nicely dressed up and that would sound much better than your current speaker wire. Even if the used cable doesn't look as appealing, take that and dress it up with some techflex, cable pants, heatshrink, some good looking/good quality naners or spades and terminate it. You'll be even happier about it since you did it yourself too

I know I was over my simple jumpers, check out the banana plug opinions thread.

-Freddy

gelinas

Good idea. Does techflex only come in solid colors? I'm not seeing any with the stripes like my pic shows.

kawizx9r

You can just heatshrink the cable itself with a color of your choice (wide variety) or better yet, buy some raw cable that comes in a jacket color of your choice. The techflex is somewhat see-through, and comes in few colors as well (not as many as there would be jackets/heatshrink).

Again, is aesthetics more important or sound quality?

gelinas

for the aesthetics v.s. sound quality issue, I guess the answer would be aesthetics. I know that is kind of a silly statement, but I am satisfied with the sound quality/Performance of my current 10 gauge Belden 5000. Its actually all I have ever used so I don't know any better. I was just thinking that those nicely wrapped cables from best deal cables would look quite nice sitting behind my mains.

kawizx9r

I've got some entry-level MITs, definitely a step up from the Belden 5000 wire I was using (thick round grey jacket with white/black sleeved wires).

Punchier bass bass off the bat, midrange was pushed some and the highs...well they came in with better clarity than the DIY cables I had.

I ran 14ga. oxygen-free copper wire, 2 strands per (+) (-) (doubled up per speaker) and braided in a specific manner and compared it to the Belden. I lost some bass compared to the Beldens, but the highs opened up even more. The MITs on the otherhand, outdid both my Belden and DIY stuff easily and I couldn't be happier.

kawizx9r

Here's a top view of what I look at, and like I said the other pic is in the other thread.

I got a few comments already by my neighbors and my wifes friends, even more comments when they hear the modest setup

ben62670

Fred what's in the box?

kawizx9r

ben62670 wrote: »

Fred what's in the box?

An array of cap's to null out bass frequencies....pretty much a suped up high-pass filter for my maggies.

Thing is, it doesn't cut off bass at a specific frequency. Instead, when listening to music the deeper the bass note is the more it's "cancelled" out. Hard to explain but it's as if I put an equalizer in my setup and turned down the bass more and more with the lower and lower frequencies.

Definitely makes it easier to blend in the MicroPro sub!

vc69

Ben, High -Pass thingy for the maggies.


http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1181234&postcount=48

EDIT: Ha... he beat me to it.

ben62670

Thank you:)

TouchOfEvil

You can check the for sale section, there are some PNF cables at a nice price up for brags.

Heptgiy627

gelinas wrote: »

Yeah I saw that feature on their hdmi cables. It's cool, but I have not had any issues with my hdmi's popping off or anything. Do they have the same sleve as the speaker cables if so a pic would be cool/helpful

I love this song. Sorry guys I'm a new user and I just wanted to comment on the song. My friend recently sent it to me and I fell in love with it and I just can't stop listening to it. I love romanian songs...it's probably because my country borders Romania...we're neighbors! lol

BlueFox

The douchebag Heptgiy627 has been reported.

NJPOLKER

BlueFox wrote: »

The douchebag Heptgiy627 has been reported.

Thanks for the laugh this AM nice wording.

cstmar01

Heptgiy627 wrote: »

I love this song. Sorry guys I'm a new user and I just wanted to comment on the song. My friend recently sent it to me and I fell in love with it and I just can't stop listening to it. I love romanian songs...it's probably because my country borders Romania...we're neighbors! lol

uhhhh did I miss something here? really? a song, I think your translator is broken. Um yeah. Go away sell your crap to someone else another day.

kitesforsale

cstmar01 wrote: »

uhhhh did I miss something here? really? a song, I think your translator is broken. Um yeah. Go away sell your crap to someone else another day.

Great ideas here - thanks for sharing peeps.

fbm211

^^reported^^Piss Off

TimeTech

Isnt the Reckhorn F-1 or B-2 a better choicce for the Maggies?
alot more control ? 24 degree slope

http://www.creativesound.ca/products.php?make=Reckhorn

Reckhorn Electronic Crossover This simple unit is ideal for a subwoofer and speaker 2 channel installation. Up to 2 mono subs can be connected. The high pass is variable from 50 to 150 Hz and the low pass sub crossover from 40 to 150 Hz. Both slopes are 24 dB per octive



Technical data:
power supply 110 volts / 60 Hz
input sensitivity 0.1 - 10 volts / 10 k ohms
satellite stereo signal output + 3 dB / 47 k ohms
satellite frequency response 50 - 40000 Hz -1 dB
satellite high pass, stereo, variabel 50 - 150 Hz / 24 dB
satellite total distortions 0.001 %
subwoofer 2 x mono signal outputs max. 10 volts / 47 k ohms
subwoofer frequency response 15 - 150 Hz -1 dB
subwoofer 2 x mono low pass variabel 40 - 150 Hz / 24 dB
subwoofer total distortions 0.001 %
signal - noise ratio subwoofer and satellites over 95 dB
power consumption with signal input max. 3 watts
power consumtion without signal max. 2.5 watts
width x height x depth (mm) 155 x 48 x 130
weight 0.7 kg