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Title: coax used as speaker cable good or bad?
Post by: hzgone on October 03, 2007, 06:21:31 PM

Just curious how good or bad it is to use coax as speaker cable.  I'm wondering cause someone setup our center channel speaker here at work with standard coax cable.

Title: Re: coax used as speaker cable good or bad?
Post by: boojum on October 03, 2007, 09:41:47 PM

It will work, of course.  But the best thing to connect speakers with is, yup, speaker cable.  Really heavy zip cord will work fine despite what people with the high-priced spread will tell you.  12 A.W.G zip cord.   ;o)

Title: Re: coax used as speaker cable good or bad?
Post by: Church-Audio on October 03, 2007, 10:04:42 PM

Quote from: boojum on October 03, 2007, 09:41:47 PM

It will work, of course.  But the best thing to connect speakers with is, yup, speaker cable.  Really heavy zip cord will work fine despite what people with the high-priced spread will tell you.  12 A.W.G zip cord.   ;o)

And remember "just because you can does not mean you should" lol I agree use speaker cable for speakers and Coax for hooking up your tv.. :)

Title: Re: coax used as speaker cable good or bad?
Post by: hzgone on October 04, 2007, 12:32:46 AM

thanks for the info that is what i though but this just adds to a bunch of stuff that these guys have jacked up.  For instance they tried to hook up our cable box and dvd player with hdmi but guess what our tv doesn't have hdmi.

Title: Re: coax used as speaker cable good or bad?
Post by: Nicola Fankhauser on October 04, 2007, 04:17:15 AM

hi

why use coax? for surround systems I always recommend Category 5 cable, preferably STP (shielded twisted pair). this gives you whopping 7.1 (if you take the shielding as common GND) over a SINGLE cable!

SCNR :)

regards
nicola

Title: Re: coax used as speaker cable good or bad?
Post by: Nick's Picks on October 04, 2007, 07:48:57 AM

there are some that think the coax route is *it*.
see anti-cables, for example.

i'm about to get a pair to try out and see if they are as bad-ass as some folks claim.