Ignore the pricing in heading. I have purchased a bunch of dealer demo cables from a store which has since closed. Inquire about the models you want.Straightwire Maestro: terminated in spades, white jacket, 15 feet. Clear outer jacket is getting hazy in appearance. Cactus Cable Sonoran Audio Desert speaker cable: 18 feet, terminated in copper Cardas spades: this one looks to be very large gauge in four bundles covered with a corrugated rubber sheath, which sort of looks like a miniature automotive radiator hose (about 5/8 inch in diameter). Highly rated in an older TAS. Music Metre Shotgun biwired set:terminated in spades 7 feet long.' Monster MCX 25 15 foot pair Harmonic Technology: Melody Link: 6 foot pair terminated in bananas. The base line HT utilizing their continuously cast 6N wire, 12 Gauge: $100 Discovery Cable 1-2-3: Triwired with spades, 20 foot pair: $300 Mystery cable: Four strands in a sheathed, black mostly with green trapezoidal spots, housing measuring about 3/8 inch in diameter. Two blackish strands and a red and white strand. The white strand is labeled "bass". The sheathing is an attractive nylon weave" black with green square (well, trapezoidal) spots.
The cable is "shotgunned", and is doubled up on each other (four strands black and four strands of the combined white pair and red pair, but not biwired. Spades to bananas, judging from the writing direction on the white strand. Pricing on package was $198: used $50
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