Speaker Cable...quick recommendations

[BMWCCA]

With a banana plug having a rating of between 5 and 10 amps and a Speakon having a rating of somewhere around 50, I will let you decide.

Oh I don't doubt the efficiency and robust build quality of the Speakons, etc, but in the end it really all boils down to the efficacy of the lowly Faston connectors (spades) used on the drivers, most networks, and the NL8s. I really doubt the Neutrik bananas are a weak point in most systems. Short of soldering everything, I'm good with them.

We do use Speakons exclusively in the high-power SR systems I help with. Foolproof and positive. The pride of Lichtenstein.

[Eaulive]

With a banana plug having a rating of between 5 and 10 amps and a Speakon having a rating of somewhere around 50, I will let you decide.

Allan.

NL4FC 30A RMS
NL4FX 40A RMS
NLT4FX 40A RMS, 50A RMS @ 50% duty cycle.

I use NL4FX for all my installs and my mobile kits. They're cheap and tough.

[midlife]

Can anyone post a pic of speakons ?

[BMWCCA]

Can anyone post a pic of speakons ?

Neutrik NL4

[hjames]

Not having hands-on familiarity with that device,
is it just a 2 conductor connector?
('cause I thought the connectors on your biamp 4345s had more contacts ...8?)

Neutrik NL4

[BMWCCA]

Those are four-conductor (NL4). Mine used eight-conductor NL8s:


Here's a typical inside shot from Google images:


Some use grub screws, others use faston. Either way it requires modification of your speaker input/network to accommodate the socket.

This is what my 4345s looked like when I got them:

[Eaulive]

Not having hands-on familiarity with that device,
is it just a 2 conductor connector?
('cause I thought the connectors on your biamp 4345s had more contacts ...8?)

2, 4 or 8 , the 8 is bigger but the 2 and 4 have the same housing although they do not mate.
http://www.neutrik.com/fl/en/audio/2...oductlist.aspx

[Eaulive]

Here's a typical inside shot from Google images:

This picture is from a chinese knock off, not a neutrik! I've seen those, they are bad, bad, bad...

[Eaulive]

Some use grub screws, others use faston. Either way it requires modification of your speaker input/network to accommodate the socket.

Neutrik makes a good connector for the speaker cabinet with a big round flange.

http://www.neutrik.com/fl/en/audio/2...PR_detail.aspx

[jcrobso]

The Speakon connector has been around for about 20 years now, east to wire up, easy to connect, great connector.

[SEAWOLF97]

screw your speakers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpa_4...eature=related

[Eaulive]

screw your speakers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpa_4...eature=related

Man, this guy is preaching about sound quality and he could not even set the microphone gain straight. His recording sucks, it's overloaded and the AGC pumps.

As for his tweak, I will quote 4313B:

woohoo... whatthefuckever...

I didn't get past the first two minutes.

[Allanvh5150]

I thought he was going to poke his finger through the cone to improve the sound. I think it would be best if he just stuck to smoking weed......

[jcrobso]

screw your speakers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpa_4...eature=related

He says that steel has resonance and brass does not. I guess no one told the brass bells that they are not suppose to work.

[jcrobso]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q3Q3...eature=related

Magnets in your cables?

Lets see now, as the current flows back and forth in the wire and the magnetic filed it produces is now going to interact with filed of the magnet buried in the cable. This is some how going to make the signal travel faster than it would with out the magnet?