Interconnect or Speaker cable - which is more important ?

[ANADROL-50]

In your system which cable do you consider to be more important - your interconnect or speaker cable ?

 

[tackleberry]

Neither

 

[rdale]

I think the question is meaningless. If you believe in expensive cables, you should get expensive interconnects and matching expensive speaker cables. If you don’t think cables are important then get cheap ones.

I personally use the same make of not too expensive cable for interconnects, speaker cables and mains cables which I think makes sense.

 

[rabski]

 

[bigfish786]

For the first time ever I have matched cables.
got Chord Co Clearway for both interconnect (CD) and Speaker cables.
the Clearaudio tonearm has its own cable, dunno if that’s in house or provided by an outside company. It has the feel of VDH. But who knows

 

[DomT]

Exactly! What's the point?

If you have neither interconnects or speaker cables then a) you will hear no sound unless b) you have a wireless solution to your speakers that have wifi/bluetooth and a DAC.

 

[gintonic]

neither

 

[Southeastern]

Both are of equal value.

 

[Sotosound]

In your system which cable do you consider to be more important - your interconnect or speaker cable ?

Why do you ask?

 

[Bodgit]

As long as both are above 'crap', then I doubt it really makes much difference.

 

[Warszawa]

 

[Lawrence001]

Joking aside there's a series point to this question. If you see a cables job as passing down the signal as unaltered as possible, I'd be interested to know which has more scope to cause a problem. I intuitively think speaker cables as if you consider the role of impedance and capacitance on the output, together with the back EMF or inductance of the speakers there's a lot that can go wrong.
Although I'm not sure to what extent a cable can reduce this compared to say damping factor/current limit of the amplifier.

I suppose the other important cable would be the tonearm cable and any cable connecting the TT to the amp/SUT/phono stage given the small voltages and risk of interference, capacitance and impedance again being a factor.

 

[MVJ]

Nothing works without both so both are just as important as each other

 

[Speedskater]

It's easy for a boutique manufacture to mess up either.
But it's even easier to get them correct.
a] for RCA interconnects, a coax with a heavy braided shield.
b] for speaker cables just two large conductors.

 

[Ceko]

Nothing works without both so both are just as important as each other

If you have a all in one integrated then you don’t need interconnects so that would make speakercable more important.

 

[rabski]

If you have a all in one integrated then you don’t need interconnects so that would make speakercable more important.

But if you have active speakers, then interconnects are more important

 

[MVJ]

If you have a all in one integrated then you don’t need interconnects so that would make speakercable more important.

Tru dat

 

[tuga]

In your system which cable do you consider to be more important - your interconnect or speaker cable ?

My wife says the speaker cable. The colour must absolutely match that of the carpet!

 

[DomT]

My wife says the speaker cable. The colour must absolutely match that of the carpet!

You are an architect and you have carpet rather than wooden floor boards? Tut tut! (Sorry)

 

[mac72]

You are an architect and you have carpet rather than wooden floor boards? Tut tut! (Sorry)

Carpet must be laid on something also carpet is better than bare wooden floor boards as it improves acoustical response