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Need Help with Speaker Cable ID. What are they?

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It has the following attributes:
-From the early 1990s
-Sold by a Vandersteen dealer
-Roughly the same diameter as Audioquest Type 4, but darker blue.
-About the same shade of blue as Audioquest Indigo
-The wire is stranded, not solid-core like the AQ family.
-No writing on the jacket.

Did Tara Labs make a blue cable? Is this a 90's "home install" AQ product?

In any case, thank you for looking and thank you again in advance if you can help me ID this product.
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zd542
5,339 posts
 
I know for sure that its not Midnight. Midnight is solid core and the OP's cable is stranded. Also, its labeled AQ Midnight non stop down the length of the cable. Too bad for the OP its not Midnight, its a very nice cable.
dragon1952
170 posts
 
Midnight is quite a few strands in each conductor of solid core.
dragon1952
170 posts
 
.....Meaning they weren't wafer thin strands. The original Midnight had strands exactly like his pic. Maybe the later + and hyperlitz versions didn't.
zd542
5,339 posts
 
"07-23-14: Dragon1952
.....Meaning they weren't wafer thin strands. The original Midnight had strands exactly like his pic. Maybe the later + and hyperlitz versions didn't."

Its not Midnight. The OP's picture has 4 internal multi-strand conductors. 2 red and 2 black. The origional AQ Midnight looked similar but it wasn't the same. All of the solid core conductors, while smaller than typical, each had their own jacket. And yes, they were not configured like later versions of midnight. The strands were braided similar to how Kimber's look. Its easy enough to verify. Just call AQ and have them look at the OP's pic.
plasmatech
77 posts
 
Some of my AQ cable has faded over time, and the letters faded. Some have darkened in color for some reason. Could be Type 4. PT
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