Favorite place to buy speaker cables

[Michael Lemke]

So I've bought all this great hardware to build a wicked set of DR's. I'm running through the checklist and find that I need to add another 30% to the budget just to buy speakon cables to put it together. I know its a one time cost, but they just don't seem worth THAT MUCH money...ok - I feel better now (steps off the soapbox).

I'm curious to know what are some of your favorite places to buy quality cables?

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

Make your own, Parts Express has everything you need.

[Michael Lemke]

I checked out PE's site which leads me to two questions.

1 There are different gauge wires: which would be appropriate for my current setup? I assume the needs would be different if I were pushing thousands of watts through the wires.

2. How long is too long for that given wire size? I understand after certain distance resistance builds up. I don't think I need anything longer than 25 feet, but I'm new to this end of things...

[safritsound]

What I do for speaker cable is the local electrical supply shop. I get 14g two conductor SJ cable. I usually buy it by the spool. I haven't gotten any in a while so I know prices have changed. Buy your connectors from here for a better price than you will get on partsexpress. Or even go ahead and get the already made cables from them as well. Great people to do business with.

[pgolde]

Audiopile excellent quality, excellent service, excellent prices

http://www.audiopile.net/products/Speak ... Cables.asp

That's where I get all mine, pre-made for about the price of parts, nice labels on them as well

[Sydney]

I got it all from PE as well and used their Carol Heavy Duty SJ ( page 91 in 2007 catalog ). 14/2 for my application.

[Michael Lemke]

excellent...thanks all. That's exactly what I was after.

[bgavin]

If you buy Speakon cables, beware the Asian knock-off connectors. They are nowhere close to Neutrik quality.

That said, I own a number of Asian long cables, 25~100 feet. It was cost effective to replace the cheap connectors with Neutrik Speakon as required.

[Monomer]

Audiopile for any cabling that I don't make myself



Speakon ends are cheapest at CamelTraders

[tdogg]

http://www.nyproaudiocables.com/servlet/StoreFront

ive purchased a couple of things from these guys. not the cheapest on everything, but great quality and fast shippers. just my $.02

[sonicanvil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_wire

[LelandCrooks]

Okay, me too! http://www.speakerhardware.com/products.php?cat=124

Not the cheapest, but they're good quality cables, especially the xlr's.

[chunkylover73]

I've ordered special order cables from bayoucables.com in the past, they seem pretty good but it takes a long time to get your order. I recently bought a load of 12/2 speaker cable from redco.com, got no complaints so far.

[Ron K]

Make your own, Parts Express has everything you need.

+1.

Speaker cables are rather easy these days to assemble with the new speakon ends.Your local electrical shop should have the cable and PE has the Speakons at a pretty reasonable price.

If you dont want to make them you could always purchase them but you will pay the price for anything pre-made.

The CBI brand Leland sells are very good quality cables.

My approach has always been to purchase whatever I could in bulk. The first roll of Mic cable I purchased was a roll of 22ga. Belden shielded and if I remember correctly I got a 1000 ft roll! Then I bought bags of 100 count Switchcraft XLR ends and proceeded to hack and solder! Made as many different sizes I could! I still have cable on that dam roll!

Speaker cables I usually buy 10/2-12/2-14/2 SOOW or SJOW depending on whats available and the current price of copper. Again I would get at least a 250ft roll as I dont believe it even comes in a smaller roll anyways. Under that you pay by the foot costs.Same with power cables.

If you only need 2 cables then I would simply buy them.If your running a sound company it pays to have cable footage in stock at all times.