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Best jack to jack speaker cable?


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Dave is indeed a good chap. If you do fancy rolling your own, then, as Bigguy recommends above, the Neutrik speaker jacks are excellent - plenty of room in them to use a proper gauge of speaker cable (anything of good quality, such as Van Damme as he suggests, will be fine). Making them isn't difficult and will save you money.

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On 12/01/2020 at 22:28, Dan Dare said:

Dave is indeed a good chap. If you do fancy rolling your own, then, as Bigguy recommends above, the Neutrik speaker jacks are excellent - plenty of room in them to use a proper gauge of speaker cable (anything of good quality, such as Van Damme as he suggests, will be fine). Making them isn't difficult and will save you money.

The Neutrik jacks are made by their UK subsidiary REAN and are too big for some speaker cables. From memory  only the 4mm cables are fit well. .If you  use the 2.5mm* cable some of the smaller jacks are OK. Just don’t scrimp on the plugs, most Neutrik, Switchfraft and Amphenol jack plugs are. OK at fairly high currents but generic jack plugs are often only good for 1 amp or even as little as  half an amp. I  am away at the moment but will check my “facts” tomorrow asI have most plugs and cables at home. 

 

* for short amp to can cables, 2.5mm is more than good enough, 4mm is overkill.

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2.5 mm2 cable is able to carry (230 V x 16 A) 3.7 kW RMS easily, while a 4 mm2 cable can carry (230 V x 20 A) 4.6 kW RMS. 

Someone may say, that the numbers are low, but the whole cable includes connectors and connections, too, so these wattages are on the safe side. Ultimate powers for the cable only would be around 8 and 10 kW @ 230 V.

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