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best biwire speaker cables for under $300??

Any suggestions for affordable biwire cables for around the $300 price point? I need a 5-6 foot pair. My related equipment is an Onix SP3 integrated tube amp, a Eastern Electric Minimax CDP, and Vandersteen 2ce speakers. I'm looking for the typical traits: detail, soundstage, more weight, and cleaner imaging. Bass could be improved too. I currently have decent DIY biwire cables. Have researched MIT, Nordost, Cardas, and others, but the cost is where I'm stuck. Any low cost wonder cables that you all would recommend? Thanks for the feedback!
lincnabby
dan_ed
2,451 posts
 
Also try the Clear Day speaker cables. I have a pair of his double shotgun wires that I've been comparing with some high dollar Nordost. Clear Day has a 30 day money back guarantee, but be aware that these cables need close to 100 hours to open up. At 200 hours they get very good. They are made of solid core silver wrapped around a center tube, providing a mostly air dielectric. They sound clear and detailed while providing excellent bass control.
jylee
306 posts
 
Kimber 8TC and Analysis Plus Oval 9 are as transparent as I have heard. Save money by buying single runs instead of biwire, and just use jumpers on the speaker side.
tvad
9,467 posts
 
I owned Analysis Plus Oval 9. Great speaker cable. I agree with Jylee that single runs with jumpers sometimes works better than bi-wire. This is what I found when I replaced the Analsis Plus bi-wire with a single run of Straley Reality cable with Straley jumpers (I also auditioned Straley bi-wire). The Straley Realty Cable sounded more transparent and had better bass control than the Oval 9.

Your mileage will vary, which is why buying used wire, or buying wire with a money back guarantee reduces the risk.
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philjolet
2,262 posts
 
Alpha Core Goeartz MI2 Veracity (whew) excellent cable with beautiful tone and very open
mb9061
137 posts
 
I'm running a pair of Audioquest Bedrock bi-wires with AQ spaid terminations. I'm not sure if you can classify them as warm, as I've had to gear everything else in my system to the warm side (golden reference ICs, Musical Fidelity A5 integrated). I may have inadvertantly geared my system around these cables due to their brightness, but either case I've no real complaints about them. Very revealing with great low end response.
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