Chord Company Speaker Cables from the UK's Number 1 Supplier of Audio Visual cables

If you are going to get the best performance from your hi-fi or home cinema system, speaker cable is just as important as every other component in the set up. The Chord Company receives many enquiries from people unhappy with the sound of their system and in a lot of cases the problem is caused by the speaker cable. Because of the lengths involved, many people economise by fitting cheap cable. This is like buying a high performance sports car and fitting remould tyres. Although speaker cables are very different in design, the materials used are the same as those found in interconnects and have the same influence on the sound quality.

Get the most from your speaker cable Chord speaker cables are designed to be as practicable and compatible as possible. All our speaker cables will perform well over the long lengths required for home cinema systems. The following ideas will help you get the best performance from your system.

1 Fit the best speaker cable you can. Surprisingly modest systems respond extremely well to good speaker cable.

2 Think about the position of your system. Shorter runs of cable will not only sound better but will cost less. If possible, keep the left and right runs of cable the same length.

3 Avoid running speaker cable next to mains cable. If you need to cross a mains cable, do so at an angle of ninety degrees. If one speaker is closer to the amplifier than the other, do not be tempted to tidy the excess length by coiling the cable. This will degrade the performance.

4 It is often better to single wire with a good two-core speaker cable than bi-wire with a less expensive four core cable.

5 Keep the signal path the same. If you are using interconnects with silver-plated conductors, choosing a cable that uses the same materials can really help the system to work at its best.