Speaker cable Biwire for Arcam setup and to fit under the carpet

[Gti Jazz Blue]

Good Afternoon All,

I'm looking for recomendations for a BiWire speaker cable that I can lay round the edge of the lounge under the carpet.

System is an Arcam CD8 8R and 8P running a pair of Kef Q15 speakers. Very mixed range of music from Rock through Dance, Electronic to Classical.

Cable will have to run under the carpet between the underlay and gripper rod to keep the Mrs happy.

Budget £100 - £200 and I will need two 5 metre lengths

Thanks,

Paul.

 

[John Duncan]

Strangely, flat speaker cable is either really cheap or really expensive. For the former, look at QED Qontour, for the latter, look at Nordost Flat.

 

[Gti Jazz Blue]

OK so I have looked at possible locations in the lounge with my wife and we are looking at one right next to my rack and one 5.5 metres away.

Do I need to keep matched cable lengths ?

I am looking at one run of 5.5M and the other only needs to be about 2M, do I get 2 * 5.5M runs and have a loop of it under the equipment rack ?

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Paul

 

[JoelSim]

In theory they should be the same length. I don;t know whether it makes much difference in practice

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Gti Jazz Blue:
OK so I have looked at possible locations in the lounge with my wife and we are looking at one right next to my rack and one 5.5 metres away.

Do I need to keep matched cable lengths ?

I am looking at one run of 5.5M and the other only needs to be about 2M, do I get 2 * 5.5M runs and have a loop of it under the equipment rack ?

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Paul

You will be fine with unequal lengths. I read recently that someone with amazing hearing might be able to notice a difference if you had one at 15m away and one at 2m away but even then it would not be audible to many.

 

[John Duncan]

You're right that audibly there should be little or no difference, but electrically there could be - the slightly differing resistances offered could fool the amp into thinking there's a problem and cut in its protection circuits. I'd try to keep the lengths as close as possible.

Furthermore, I've learned from experience that if you ever want to move stuff around, you'll find one of your cables is too short........