# Opinions on Speaker Cables? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cables\ **Created:** [June 30, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/opinions-on-speaker-cables/24352 "2021-06-30T22:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![terzinator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/terzinator/32/45292_2.png) [@terzinator](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/terzinator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/opinions-on-speaker-cables/24352/10 "2021-07-01T13:01:26Z")
it’s not sexy stuff, but I would recommend getting some Belden 1313A cable and using that as your reference. The price? About $2 a foot. Sacrilege, I know. Actually, I don’t know much about anything, but this is really good, extremely inexpensive cable. If I had some esoteric listening palace I might consider something else, but in a living-room system, I think it’s great. (I got it for a longer run, but I’m also using some in my office system, and I can’t complain.) Its appearance is pretty boring on its own, but add some black cable sheathing and decent bananas and you’ve got something that looks downright fancy. > [@Belden 1313A for longer speaker run?](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/belden-1313a-for-longer-speaker-run/21434): > > Strictly a mid-fi system in my living room, and I don’t have the luxury of having my speakers close to the amplifier. (Well, I could, but I don’t want to.) The amp is in a closet and the speakers are on the far wall. The run is about 25 feet, so high-end esoteric speaker cable would be cost-prohibitive and just not make sense for this system. (Parasound HINT6 amp to Harbeths. 90% streaming Tidal/Qobuz using RaspPi; 10% vinyl.) I’m currently using some Audioquest SLiP 14/2 wire, which is servic… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/opinions-on-speaker-cables/24352)._