Twisted vs Paired Speaker Cable

[redfred18t 10+ year member]

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[wu501 10+ year member]

I've used both and honestly have no preference. Twisted usually seems to be more of a pain in the *** to work with when it has the extra casing around the wires.

 

[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

one day ill use cat5

 

[dave_damage 10+ year member]

I've used both and honestly have no preference. Twisted usually seems to be more of a pain in the *** to work with when it has the extra casing around the wires.

Twisted is a pain!! But its still nice.

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

Whichever one looks prettier.

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

whatever is cheapest //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

i don't see how there's an advantage w/ twisted.

 

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

what's to discuss?

one is just as effective as the other, but one is fluffed a lot more by various marketing departments.

 

[kush-divinity 10+ year member]

Paired FTW as you can fit it in alot more places, it's cheaper, and way easier to find local.

 

[redfred18t 10+ year member]

what's to discuss?one is just as effective as the other, but one is fluffed a lot more by various marketing departments.

Basically I just wanted to get peoples' opinions on twisted vs paired

I'm doing paired for my mids but I have the chance to do either twisted or paired for my tweets (I have both twisted and paired 16ga). Just trying to figure out if its worth it to do the twisted since I could use the cheaper paired wire, and sell the twisted //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Whatever is cheapest or you like the looks of. No audible difference.

 

[redfred18t 10+ year member]

I'm thinking of getting some stinger 12 ga from darvex. Its about a $7 difference from knu's karma wire for the same length, however since the stinger is paired, I'm thinking of getting that. Also darvex has some miscellaneous terminals I need that knu doesn't have so I'll save on shipping I guess

 

[Bender. 10+ year member]

i hate twisted it is so hard to work with

 

[redfred18t 10+ year member]

yeah thanks again for the heads up guys. I picked up some paired cable so hopefully it will lead to a simpler install. I want to put my components in with the swiftness and I honestly dont want to deal with the thick twisted stuff. I cant imagine how thick 12ga twisted would be

 

[MustangGT25YRS 10+ year member]

Morning/

I used Stinger's 12 gauge Blue and Silver Twisted cable in my SC2 install and

didn't have Issues working w/it.Yeah to strip the Outer casing takes alittle more effort...but it's not "Back Breaking",plus it looks nice,IMOPO/.

But that's why there's speaker cable choices.

Regards/

Raymond

 

[01 S 10 10+ year member]

shouldnt really matter unless you have wire exposed. and if you have wire exposed then you need to fix that! so basically it doesnt matter. paired seems to fit in tighter places.