I get all my cables from Hotwired Cables, they use Mogami cable and Nuetrik connectors. They'll make them in any length and any combination of connectors you can think up (or that is possible anyways). Very reasonabily priced and fast turn around time.

http://hotwiredcables.com

Peace,
BEN

What's the budget? If you have a good amount of money to spend, I'd go with Monster, Canare, or Mogami. I personally think Monster is overpriced. In my opinion, out of those three, Mogami is the best. You can get Mogami or Canare at [="http://www.redco.com"]Redco Audio[/]="http://www.redco.com"]Redco Audio[/]. Monster Cable is available at pretty much any discount warehouse like [[url=http://="http://www.guitarce…"]Guitar Center[/]="http://www.guitarce…"]Guitar Center[/], [="http://www.americanmusical.com"]American Musical Supply[/]="http://www.american…"]American Musical Supply[/], [[url=http://="link removed[/]="link removed[/], [="http://www.zzounds.com"]zZounds[/]="http://www.zzounds…"]zZounds[/], [[url=http://="http://www.samash.c…"]Sam Ash[/]="http://www.samash.c…"]Sam Ash[/], [[url=http://[/URL]="http://www.musician…"]Musician's Friend[/]="http://www.musician…"]Musician's Friend[/], etc. If tight on funds and needing $250 - $1000 worth of cable or other stuff, American Musical Supply offers a 3 payment plan with no credit check.

I can attest both to Hotwired and to American Musical Supply.

AMS has saved my bacon in terms of getting come much needed equipment while stull blunting the blow of spending that much money by dividing the cost into payments. As was mentioned, they don't perform a credit check, but that's not a problem for me. For me, the big pro there is the lack of any interest despite using a payment plan. For certain things, go with AMS. I love 'em.

However, I've also used Hotwired. While you can't split the price into payments like AMS, if you save up and pay all at once at Hotwired, you can get free shipping, and a percentage off (depending on how much you spend, of course).

The quality of the snakes and cables there are amazing. The signal path is pristine (or as pristine as it gets on *my* equipment, anyway! :) ), the service is courteous and helpful, the stuff's uber-sturdy, and it's all custom made, just for you. Be aware that, as with most custom made things, it takes a little longer to get your stuff than if you use a catalog.

My advice: talk to Hotwired. Use AMS for other things. And Monster Cables are indeed overpriced. We use them for our guitar leads. They sound great, plus we've had one or two konk out and then replaced for free under their warranty (which I really appreciate and respect), but still...it's a bit much, in my opinion, for Monster...

Hope this helps!

PS Is "konk" spelled correctly?

If you can't build your own, Hotwired is the next best thing.

Hm. Good point.

I need to learn to make my own. Any pointers as to how to begin to learn how to do that...??

Until then, Make Mine Hotwired. :D

Buy some Mogami 2549 from Redco or wherever and some Neutrik XLR plugs. A soldering iron too (25-40 watts). Put the cable through the back half of the Neutrik plug (unscrew a pre-built cable and check out how it goes together if you are unsure). Pull the copper shield wire together and solder it to pin 1 on the XLR. Strip the light and dark wires, solder the light one to pin 2 and the dark one to pin 3. Screw the pieces together and you are done. Not too hard, but I am having a little harder time with TRS plugs. Everything is right on top of eachother.

you have to borrow some differnt cables and listen to them....

there is no other way!!!

while people here can recommend all they like it depends on speakers/amps/acoustics/ etc.

listen!!

for all but my largest speakers
I use 7.5 amp and 10 amp power cable
... many strands, lots of quality copper, flexible and
terminates well into XL's and Speakon connectors
and
rolls up well

I even have some 4 core power flex for the MID/HI caboinates in the PA system ... I also you use this for the dual feed SUBs

simple, effective and reliable

don't make this harder than it needs to be

Oh shoot! We're talking speaker cables here; what am I thinking :shock:
Please ignore my previous post.

unless ... of course we are on self-powered monitors

??

then we do want balance line xl to xl ....
Mogami and Canare, lots of choices

See Rane tech notes for various connection and wiring senerios

Kev wrote: for all but my largest speakers
I use 7.5 amp and 10 amp power cable
... many strands, lots of quality copper, flexible and
terminates well into XL's and Speakon connectors
and
rolls up well

I even have some 4 core power flex for the MID/HI caboinates in the PA system ... I also you use this for the dual feed SUBs

simple, effective and reliable

don't make this harder than it needs to be

how do your cables sound???.... compared to others??

when the cable meets the required spec

... they sound as they should

ok kev.... just checking... :)

i strongly disagree.... but that's ok 8-)

if you here a problem then your cable probably doesn't meet the required spec

many times I have been to a personal studio and found the problem cable or connection point
and
then demonstrated a cable problem
with some simple simple tests

Mega dollars on some of these esoteric cables is just stupid and when put to some serious comparison tests against some quality cables the difference in money is not justified

Having said that,
an overly large high copper content multi stranded speaker cable is of course going to work very well on a 100 Watt, 8 ohm system
no surprises there
and quality shielded single ended cable of correct impedance and frequency spec is going to work fine for Hi Fi line level stuff over relatively short distances.

One very disappointing result for a client was their very expensive Hi Fi cables had deteriorated of a relatively short period of time

(why the cable should have deteriorated at all is unknown to me ... I guess the dialectric was changing or falling apart ... cable corrosion that wasn't evident on the ends is also possible ... I guess)

and so I replaced with some cable removed from service from here at work (TV station)
He said things sounded fine again ....
....
the cable was around 15 years old
...
it was scrap cable

I've found the best sounding cable (at least for drums and male vox) is the solid copper kind. None of that stranded crap. Most of my rack is wired with solid wire now days. Kind of hard to use for mic cables, but worth it.

8)