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Gear / Technical Help => Cables => Topic started by: twoodruff on May 12, 2004, 09:08:53 AM
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I was wondering if someone knew where to buy bulk high end speaker cable, audio magic, nordost red dawn/blue heaven and the like?
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You can get a variety of Kimber Kable and the DH Labs T-14 speaker wire in bulk from welbournelabs.com
You can get Cardas Crosslink starquad speaker cable in bulk from DIYcable.com (oddly enough, look under the audio connectors tab for this).
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I take it the belden didn't work out?
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i use the belden for interconnects, I am going to try the cat5 cables that nmculberth made for me, said he would make anybody some, only $100, right Nick?
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hahahhaa thats just funny... 100 bucks
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hahahhaa thats just funny... 100 bucks
nah they came out to just over $55 between materials and shipping, the cat5 is cheap it's the connectors that get expensive.
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hahahhaa thats just funny... 100 bucks
nah they came out to just over $55 between materials and shipping, the cat5 is cheap it's the connectors that get expensive.
Yeah, but how much is your time worth? I made a set for me, there's no way in hell I'd make another set for someone else unless I was adequately compensated.
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i didn't charge for labor since they were for a board regular, but normally i'd probably charge $40 for labor. the triple t recipe i used isn't too time consuming, i probably spent two hours braiding another two stripping the wires and soldering on the spades. imho if you use quality materials - i used upper end cat5 and rhodium/silver plated spades - i don't think $100 is an unfair price but it sounds like jonny is willing to do them for under that. :P
on the other hand i made a new set of ven haus recipe speaker cables for myself and i wouldn't consider making another pair for any less than $500 because they take forever to make. i probably spent 30 hours on them and had about $100 in parts but they sure do sound nice. :)
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Great DIY site if you don't know about it already
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/cables/bbs.html
Bulk sites worth checking out. I have had good experiences with parts connexion
http://partsconnexion.com/
http://linearinterconnects.com/
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I use Canare 4S11 speaker wire. The stuff is awesome! It can be bi-wired. I bought it from a distributor in Albany, NY. Below is there link.
http://store.haveinc.com/ebus30/