Nice looking speaker cables that aren't expensive?

[CALCULATOR]

Like the title says

I want to buy some pre made cables that look decent but aren't insanely expensive

I don't want to get into the whole "how it's sounds" debate, only how it looks

I need them to be about 10ft long and durable, but sensibly priced... Meaning not some $500 cable, that's insane. It's a frickin cable, not a washing machine.

 

[CALCULATOR]

I really liked these monoprice RCA's I got for $10 each. Super nice looking cables and feel awesome.

Saw the same build cable from "world's best cables" sell for $100+... WTF?

So it's obvious you can make cables for a low cost, as you can see I'm rocking ugliness for my speaker posts, and I want something to match the look of the RCA interconnects

 

[VMAT4]

White or black zip cord?

 

[Blumlein 88]

You could buy techflex sleeves and put it on your current cable. They make ends to shrink onto and make that look neat too.

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Flexo® Remix Braided Sleeving

Flexo® remix braided sleeving is designed to have a randomized color design to provide unique aesthetics and enhances camouflage ability.

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[Blumlein 88]

This is so cheap not even worth sleeving your own.

https://www.amazon.com/GearIT-Premium-Braided-Speaker-Plated/dp/B071L37VMR/ref=sr_1_35?crid=81DBJQB8EFGR&keywords=speaker%2Bcable%2B14%2Bgauge&qid=1685765040&sprefix=speaker%2Bcable%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-35&th=1

 

[CALCULATOR]

You could buy techflex sleeves and put it on your current cable. They make ends to shrink onto and make that look neat too.

All Products | Techflex.com

Techflex has a wide range of Braided Sleeving products for any project. Check out the complete product list and find the perfect product for your application.

www.techflex.com

Techflex | B&H Photo Video

Shop Digital Cameras, 35MM Camera Equipment, Photography, Photo Printers, Computers, Home Theater, Authorized Dealer Canon, Sony, Nikon, Apple, Olympus, Panasonic, Kodak, JBL

www.bhphotovideo.com

Flexo® Remix Braided Sleeving

Flexo® remix braided sleeving is designed to have a randomized color design to provide unique aesthetics and enhances camouflage ability.

www.cabletiesandmore.com

Is there a hack to braiding cables then? Or are you saying just wrap and use the shrink tube

 

[CALCULATOR]

This is so cheap not even worth sleeving your own.

https://www.amazon.com/GearIT-Premium-Braided-Speaker-Plated/dp/B071L37VMR/ref=sr_1_35?crid=81DBJQB8EFGR&keywords=speaker%2Bcable%2B14%2Bgauge&qid=1685765040&sprefix=speaker%2Bcable%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-35&th=1

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I don't like how they're so stiff at the ends, I had a pair of those but I wasn't a fan and I gave them away to a buddy when I put together a hifi birthday gift

 

[Blumlein 88]

Is there a hack to braiding cables then? Or are you saying just wrap and use the shrink tube

Slide your wire in the sleeve. Then heat shrink the ends.

 

[moonlight rainbow dream]

I go to Ghent Audio when I want fancy cables. Shipping takes a while from China, but it's not too bad.

 

[Hugo9000]

Use the techflex sleeve as @Blumlein 88 suggested, and you can use cable 'pants' to neatly cover where the positive and negative split at the end, and then use heat shrink where the cable ends meet your connectors. Fully 'dressed' speaker cables! I guess that's mostly what differentiated Monster Cable/MIT from plain 'zip' back in the 'early days' (well, other than the huge price difference hahaha! but a 'pretty' product and clever marketing spiel and fancy diagrams and 'patented tech' plus extra thick insulation, making it seem like the wires were a much larger gauge than they really were, went a long way to 'selling' the illusion of 'high end' for the most profitable products in audio history lol). Now it's easy for anyone to get the materials to give the same finished look to whatever speaker wire/cable they desire.

Cable 'pants':

Amazon.com

 

[Deleted member 4708]

Benchmark sells really good cables: https://benchmarkmedia.com/collections/cables. Not sure if you'll like the look.

 

[Dunring]

I just get Hart Cables or Audiphileninja. Both have custom options and look and work great. The quick connect is great if you have more than one device.

 

[Dismayed]

I like Blue Jeans Cables. Custom cables at an off-the-rack price.

 

[Keith_W]

There are plenty of counterfeit cable manufacturers in AliExpress. Now, I would normally frown upon counterfeit anything, and to be honest I am undecided about the ethics of buying counterfeit snake oil at non-snake oil prices. So you could go to AliExpress and buy a cheap non-counterfeit but expensive looking cable if you struggle with the ethics.

 

[Chrispy]

There are plenty of counterfeit cable manufacturers in AliExpress. Now, I would normally frown upon counterfeit anything, and to be honest I am undecided about the ethics of buying counterfeit snake oil at non-snake oil prices. So you could go to AliExpress and buy a cheap non-counterfeit but expensive looking cable if you struggle with the ethics.

Reminds me of this https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/55000-nordost-cables-for-60.38261/ (and since Nordost has little in the way of ethics, no problem in that regard).