new system bought

hi ive just bought an arcam a70 amp and arcam cd 192 for a £1000 new. saving £450.00.ive also bought a pair of ruark cl20 for £500.00 new. original price £1600.im very happy with the savings i now need speaker cables and interlinks ive been offerd qed x tube xt400 4.5 metres for £45.00 which would do both sides but what would you people recomend
and would you biwire or not also been offerd cyrus interlinks for £80.00 any advice please oceanobsession

 

Biwiring is a con.

Any cables will do, seriously

actually I mean more or less, yes I have heard differences in cables, and the XT400 is a good buy
if you bought it. BUT most well made cables by well known firms will do a good job.

 

van damme blue 4mm speaker cable from audiovisualonline.co.uk (free postage on orders over £10)

http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/...dio-grade-blue-speaker-cable-4mm/display.html

 

Or any of these http://www.connectronics.uk.com/speakercable.htm

 

yeah, this is all you need, and for interconnectors - check out my for sale thread...

 

are 'interlinks' little cables to attach together the 4 speaker terminals on the back of the speakers?

If so, save yourself £80 and use little off-cuts of cable. You'll probably get some for free from a dealer. In my view, you won't hear a difference.

 

Actually, not a con if the speakers XO's have been configured to share a common earth wire.

For example, Tannoy say "the bi-wiring principle also continues the wiring philosophy within the xover of all Tannoy speakers in that all earthing points are star wired to the source terminal to prevent common earth paths......high frequency currents may be 60db or more down from the low frequency currents,..... which may easily swamp the HF signal at crossover unless bi-wiring is used."

But, yes, quite unnecessary with a large proportion of speakers.

 

i had arcam gear like this some years back. bi amping with the matching power amp made a real good difference. it shouldn't but it did

 

bi-amping is very different,and has obvious benefits.

 

well if they design a product badly in the first place......

From what I've heard biwiring makes no difference, and I can't
believe the people who have really expensive cables
like Valahalla etc bi-wired.