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Best speaker cables with banana plugs
Best speaker cables with banana plugs

Canare 4S11 Cable:Ĭanare 4S11 is a "star quad" 14-gauge cable, with four conductors together in one outer jacket it is popular for bi-wiring (where separate wires run to each of four speaker terminals, two of which drive the high and two of which drive the low-frequency elements of the speaker assembly). Whether in white or gray, or 10 or 12 AWG, all of these cables are UL-listed and NEC-rated for in-wall use (the NEC rating for 5000UE and Twelve White is C元R for 5T00UP it's C元, and for Ten White, it's CL2). Both the 10-gauge and 12-gauge versions consist of two separately insulated conductors, twisted together and wrapped in an outer PVC sleeve the gray version of the 10-gauge 5T00UP is shown at right. Belden's standard version of these cables is available only in a gray jacket, with white and black inner conductors however, we've had Belden build us a slightly modified version of each, with a white outer jacket (less conspicuous in many installations) and red and black inner conductors, which we call "Ten White" and "Twelve White".

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Our favorite speaker cable is the Belden 5000 series we carry two offerings, the 10-gauge 5T00UP and the 12-gauge 5000UE (note: with wire gauges, the smaller the number, the larger the wire is). We offer a few alternatives in large-gauge speaker cable, either raw or terminated, as follows: Belden 5000 series Cable: The answer to keeping conductivity high is simple: the larger the wire, the lower the resistance, and the higher the conductivity. While one can spend thousands of dollars on exotic speaker cable, in the end analysis, it's the sheer conductivity of the cable, and (barring a really odd design, which may introduce various undesirable effects) little else that matters.

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The biggest issue in speaker cables, from the point of view of sound quality, is simply conductivity the lower the resistance of the cable, the lower the contribution of the speaker cable's resistance to the damping factor, and the flatter the frequency response will be. The low impedance of the circuit, meanwhile, makes capacitance, which can be an issue in high-impedance line or microphone-level connections practically irrelevant.

best speaker cables with banana plugs

Because speakers are driven at low impedance (typically 4 or 8 ohms) and high current, speaker cables are, for all practical purposes, immune from interference from EMI or RFI, so shielding isn't required. Speaker cable is a bit different from a lot of the interconnect cables we handle, in several respects. To read more about this unique process, see our article: Ultrasonic Welding at BJC. Ultrasonic welding allows us to literally fuse the copper wire to the brass banana plug body without using the heat of conventional gas or arc welding, for a tremendously strong physical connection, low contact resistance, and low susceptibility to corrosion. Speaker Cables Ultrasonically-Welded Connections on Terminated Speaker Cablesīlue Jeans Cable is now America's only vendor of ultrasonically-welded speaker cables with our recent acquisition of a Sonobond ultrasonic welder (manufactured in West Chester, PA), we are able to weld (yes, that's "weld," not "solder") locking banana plugs, spades and pin connectors to any of our speaker cable products.

Best speaker cables with banana plugs