Flat speaker cables
Posted by: Mark Packer on 27 June 2002
Ok folks,
new home, new carpets and a concrete floor. The Naim is going in a purpose built cupboard in another room. I need to use a flat flexible speaker cable in a length of about 8.5 metres. To be put in situ when the carpets are laid.
And, yes, I have Naim cable of the requisite lenth but I think the NACA-5's too stiff and thick for the only route available.
Your suggestions please...
regards,
Mark
new home, new carpets and a concrete floor. The Naim is going in a purpose built cupboard in another room. I need to use a flat flexible speaker cable in a length of about 8.5 metres. To be put in situ when the carpets are laid.
And, yes, I have Naim cable of the requisite lenth but I think the NACA-5's too stiff and thick for the only route available.
Your suggestions please...
regards,
Mark
Posted on: 27 June 2002 by David Hobbs-Mallyon
Mark,
I'm not sure why you think A5 is too thick - it's about the same thickness as the underlay, so just cut a strip in the underlay to house the A5. The only tricky bit is if you need to go round corners. Heating the A5 with a hairdryer, then folding through 90 degrees should be OK - you may get a slight bump at the corners, otherwise it's not noticable.
David
I'm not sure why you think A5 is too thick - it's about the same thickness as the underlay, so just cut a strip in the underlay to house the A5. The only tricky bit is if you need to go round corners. Heating the A5 with a hairdryer, then folding through 90 degrees should be OK - you may get a slight bump at the corners, otherwise it's not noticable.
David
Posted on: 27 June 2002 by Bruce Woodhouse
I'm a total heretic here-I use Chord Rumour in my system precisely because of the appearance of A5-the only piece of kit my wife objects to. Rumour is not flat but it is jolly thin, and flexible. Beneath underlay and carpet it is invisible.
I have no doubt that it does compromise my system but it does a pretty good job.
Bruec
I have no doubt that it does compromise my system but it does a pretty good job.
Bruec
Posted on: 27 June 2002 by garyi
Although the underlay channel is a neat trick because of the difference in density eventually a line where the cable runs will appear in the carpet, especially if its in a busy traffic area.
Your best bet will be to trace the speaker cable (regardless of what you go for) around the gripper rods, not where the carpet tucks in but the other side (facing inside the room), it can be kept in place with hot melt glue. Offer the underlay upto the speaker cable, it should go over it.
I know, I fitted the bloody stuff for long enough.
Your best bet will be to trace the speaker cable (regardless of what you go for) around the gripper rods, not where the carpet tucks in but the other side (facing inside the room), it can be kept in place with hot melt glue. Offer the underlay upto the speaker cable, it should go over it.
I know, I fitted the bloody stuff for long enough.
Posted on: 02 July 2002 by Frank Abela
The only cable to use with the standard (ie not 6-50) amps is Naim NACA5. This is the best cable for use with Naim amps. All the others have a different presentation. If Mark wants his system to sound as it does with NACA5, none of the other suggestions here will give him that.
I, for one, hate Nordost cable. In my view, it's bright, hard and has little in the way of bass. And yes, I have tried it run in and all that - it's still the most overrated pile of poo I've come across - in any system.
Chord Co cables are the next closest thing to Naim - they only suck the life out a little by comparison to NACA5. In my view, dead is dead, but if you really need something small, then consider Rumour or Odyssey.
I've heard tell that people like the DNM Reson solid core stuff with Naim. Now my understanding had been that DNM presents a particularly nasty load to amps which would be directly in contrast to NACA5, so I haven't really tried it (must do that one day). That said, there are people using it happily. Generally, DNM is tight, fast and lean so it has promise, and it's a sensible price.
Townshend Isolda ought to work electrically since it has those passive circuits that are meant to make it a sensible load. What it will do to the Naim sound is open to question since it has a very open respnse, but it's not necessarily the last word in timing. Also, you need to be careful when it's under the carpet - put a spike through it (as someone I know has done) and you fry your shorted amplifier...
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.
I, for one, hate Nordost cable. In my view, it's bright, hard and has little in the way of bass. And yes, I have tried it run in and all that - it's still the most overrated pile of poo I've come across - in any system.
Chord Co cables are the next closest thing to Naim - they only suck the life out a little by comparison to NACA5. In my view, dead is dead, but if you really need something small, then consider Rumour or Odyssey.
I've heard tell that people like the DNM Reson solid core stuff with Naim. Now my understanding had been that DNM presents a particularly nasty load to amps which would be directly in contrast to NACA5, so I haven't really tried it (must do that one day). That said, there are people using it happily. Generally, DNM is tight, fast and lean so it has promise, and it's a sensible price.
Townshend Isolda ought to work electrically since it has those passive circuits that are meant to make it a sensible load. What it will do to the Naim sound is open to question since it has a very open respnse, but it's not necessarily the last word in timing. Also, you need to be careful when it's under the carpet - put a spike through it (as someone I know has done) and you fry your shorted amplifier...
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.