titleist,

that's helpful feedback; thank you!

If I understand you correctly, the Canare 4s11 is more practical and attractive, but the sound quality is, if not improved, at the very least, it's certainly not worse. Is this correct?

Thanks,

John

The wire is more practical for me because my system (except for the mains) are built into the wall and the speaker wires can be seen. I can tell you that the Canare wire does not sound any worse than biwiring with the Home Depot cable. The Canare may actually be better but it hard to say w/o being able to switch between them. I have fairly new Quad 22l mains and they are sounding better with the more hours I put on them as well. If your looking to inexpensively bi-wire you speakers and you want 1 cable than can do it for you Canare is the best I found. I suppose you could make your own biwire speaker for less but that takes time. Hope this helps.

Yes, titleist,

that is helpful. I need the cables for the rears and the length is nearly 30'. I, too, prefer it to be relatively attractive, given it will be exposed, in parts of the room.

I think I will make the same choice.

Thank you!

John

I read an interesting article on wiring speakers and specialty brands vs. zip wire at http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm. The person that wrote the article was a head engineer for McIntosh back in the day.

I came across this while searching for the best wiring solution and it convinced me that I could get away with more "standard" wire should I choose. There is an interesting bit in there about Monster cable as well.

The link above doesn't seem to want to work when you click on it from the BB, but it should work if you copy and paste it in your browser. Not sure why, sorry!

There's a period at the end of it, but this link will also work fine.

As mentioned above I have the Canare 4s11 hooked up to my Quad 22l speakers(biwired). I have some extra left over that I would like to use to hook up an older pair of speakers I have. Can I just twist the 2 positive wires and the 2 negative wires together to use on the extra speakers.

I don't see any problem with doing that, titleist. This is done often - folks like Blue Jeans Cables offer to do this very thing, in fact.