Attractive Speaker Cables

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Re: Attractive Speaker Cables
« Reply #20 on: 28 Feb 2020, 02:23 pm »
Good looking" I would suggest Kimber 8TC, which has a cotton rope 1: thick inserted into it. then pulled back down tight over the Rope. Gives you the KS series (almost) for little cost. Put that up on a set of cute non-audiophile risers..
In fact of late you can buy colored rope. Black rope would be interesting inside the white and clear 8TC...

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Re: Attractive Speaker Cables
« Reply #21 on: 29 Feb 2020, 01:41 am »
Hey!

    Attractive speaker cables? I don't think there's any. Regardless of price, to me they're all look like wires lying around the floor :icon_lol: Your best bet is to try to find one that have similar color as the floor.

   So, for me I kinda excepted the fact that cables will look like cables dangling or lying around no matter what. But if things sounds great and look good too than that's plus, of course if it sounds great but ugly I'll except that too.

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Re: Attractive Speaker Cables
« Reply #22 on: 29 Feb 2020, 01:49 am »
Decades ago there was a fad to use 24 gauge CAT-5 as speaker cable (very tiny, hard to see).  A bit later attended a local audio club meeting where two speaker cables were compared: a tiny wire in a flat clear sheath; and a grey garden hose monster.  Don't recall the brands/models, and of course they sounded different.  Which was better was up to the beholder.  As you might guess there was limited bass output on the smaller gauge wires, but otherwise performed well, so OK for small monitors, if visual aesthetics are more important to you than sound quality. 

Time for the OP to investigate wireless speakers.

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    Wireless speakers is a good idea if you want no cables lying around... Oh! Wait they still need to be plug in... so you still have two power cords running out them :lol:

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Re: Attractive Speaker Cables
« Reply #23 on: 29 Feb 2020, 01:54 am »
You could always get whatever cables you like sound wise and get something like - https://www.amazon.com/Electriduct-Cable-Shield-Cord-Cover/dp/B0030W6TGE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

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Re: Attractive Speaker Cables
« Reply #24 on: 29 Feb 2020, 06:00 pm »
What about building a Cat-5 speaker cable? Don't remember the website, but it took miltiple cables intertwined and terminated with proper interconnects. It should have enough wire to handle bass.

http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/triple_t_e.html

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Re: Attractive Speaker Cables
« Reply #25 on: 29 Feb 2020, 08:17 pm »
I really like those Ikea tea light thingees also.

Many years ago I made these cable risers from bowl blanks made for lathe turning. Routed in 2 speaker cable channels and drilled a hole large enough for power cables to pass through. Added lead weights to the bottoms. I hold the SC's in place with sand bags hidden in kid pencil bags.