Do i need new speaker cables?

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Apologies for posting twice (posted in home cinema forum but got no replies)

I am in the process of totally updating my home cinema kit and last Friday saw the arrival of my centre piece and pride and joy, the pioneer KRP-600A. (Its killing me at moment because I don't have an AV stand to put it on. Its being built and will take another 2 weeks!!) I also have on order the Pioneer LX81/LX71 amp and blu-ray combo. Fingers crossed should be with me in next 4-5 weeks! Once i have all my new kit I'm giving my TV, amp, dvd player and AV stand away to my in-laws who have been great with us. I just need to get them some cheap speakers (and speaker cable) as I cant afford to buy new speakers at the moment. (prob Tannoy SFX 5.1 from richer sounds & some equivalent suitable cable) I posted a thread earlier about hiding speaker cables and this morning a bunch of d-line speaker conduit/trunking arrived. Great so I can now cut it to length, stick the cable inside, stick it to the wall and get on with decorating the room.

And it was at this point I had a thought - would i see any benefit in upgrading my speaker cable? I have mordaunt short speakers (905 centre, 906 floor standers, 903 surrounds and a 309i sub) The existing cables are gale bi-wireable (because the 905 and 906 are bi-wireable speakers) Hyperlatz 250 for rears and XL160-2 for fronts (QED Contour for sub). Yes i did get them from richer sounds!

I am contemplating the QED micro for the rears, and either the QED silver anniversary XT bi-wire or QED revelation for the fronts. (the revelation and xt work out at the same price (within a pound) from hificables.co.uk

So

Option 1 - leave it as it is. The speakers I have wont benefit greatly from better cable?

Option 2 - get xt bi-wire as I have bi-wireable speakers

Option 3 - get revelation (best cable but not bi-wireable)

Option 4 - something else (please say what)

Dave

 

[idc]

Hi Dave. I am no great expert on this, but so that you don't go unanswered again here are my thoughts. Having recently helped a friend tidy up his ancient home cinema setup (not touched for 6 years, 10 years old in total) we found that the QED cable he had, had not degraded at all, whereas the Gale cable he had, had perished. It sheething had cracked. My inclination is to go for Option 2. QED is an upgrade from Gale and if you can bire wire you may as well.

We made quite a few changes to his setup, so I can't say the sound improvement was all down to the cabling changes. But there was a definite sound improvement and ditching the Gale speaker wire will have helped.

 

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Thanks for the reply idc. Appreciated.

I think i will get the qed cable. Then i can give my existing gale cable to the in-laws (as i would have had to buy them some cheap cable anyway).

Dave

 

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If its any help i have just upgraded all my speaker cable QED silver anniversary for front and QED micro for rears all hidden in D-Line cble management, sounds alot better and looks great aswell now, posting some pics shortly on another thread.