Which RCA subwoofer cable to use ?

Monoprice offers some nice rg6 cables you can get for cheap. Just ordered some myself.

All I look for in interconnect cables is the connector plating. I try to stay away from using dissimilar metals at the connection. This gets difficult to do if you put together a component system as some OEMs use gold plated and some use silver. If I have equipment where the source and the target have gold terminals, then I get a cable with gold connectors.

I used a monoprice 15ft RCA cable for my sub. No need to buy an expensive cable.

Jeff

x1000. Monoprice always has quality stuff for very inexpensive prices. Really no need to spend any more.

I'm using a Belkin 25' cable. Got it on Amazon for about $10, works great. +1 for Monoprice as well.

I get lots of stuff from monoprice. Their prices can't be beat, but I wouldn't call their merchandise quality. I would call it adequate or good enough for most people. I've had too many cables break to label it quality.

RG59 will work, but RG6 is the best cable for long subwoofer runs.
Monoprice has them under "digital coaxial cable".

what kind of shipping charges will Monoprice charge to ship a cable to Europe which seems to be where the OP is living.

If it's not a long run you can use any RCA cable probably RG59 or RG6. However, for longer runs I agree with kikk that you should use RG6, I believe RG6 is at minimum 18 AWG.

If you are really worried about it, buy 2 different ones and see if you can tell a difference between them.

You don't need to spend much at all. All you need, really, is an RCA cable. A 75ohm coax cable would be a good choice. If you can find something marketed as a coax video cable, that's cheap, get it.

I would assume that the shipping charge from the US to Norway would be 2-3 times the cost of the wire itself. And that's not including the dutys and taxes!

Jeff

"RG-6" co-ax or Radio Grade 6 is a very generic label. It only means that the cable's outside diameter is about 0.3 inch (more or less) and that it's radio frequency "Characteristic Impedance" is 75 Ohms. One manufacture listed 40 different model numbers.

Chose a co-ax with a heavy braided shield,

Noway or Norway?
Man! Don't tell me you cant get a regular RCA cable in Norway or anywhere in nearby European country. Don't you have Amazon in Europe/UK? I am not familiar with that QED cable. Is that some so called "high end" cable? High end cables are nothing but marketing hype. You don't have to spend $62 for RCA cable. If you get bare RG6 cable, you have to make the connectors yourself. You might as well get the $62 cable instead of spending money to get the equipment to make the connectors.

Really? I've ordered literally hundreds of items for myself and others and the only issue I had was apt he miswired RCA to Xlr cable.

Would a component cable RG-59/U Coax cable work (with the red/blue/green ends)? People often have those on hand when theyupgrade to HDMI.

Why are you so hell bent on spending over $50 on an RCA cable? Over at Best Buy, someone told me interconnects have the second highest profit margin (next to extended warranties). In my mind this means the more expensive cables really aren't any more expensive to manufacturer, and you get ripped off. It's almost as bad as the double blind coat hanger speaker wire test someone did a few years back.

For example, monoprice will sell you a great 25ft (about 8m) cable for around $9 (hell even the shipping domestically costs almost 2x more than the actual cable). It's not like they are special, sure you can easily find the same caliber cable in Norway. Anything more and I say you're wasting your money.

Monoprice. I have an expensive 30ft cable on one sub and a monoprice 35ft on another. I cannot distinguish any difference between them. Get the monoprice and breathe easy. Your wallet will, too.

I have both Monoprice and Blue jeans LC-1 and though the quality difference between the two is day and night the Blue jean being the much nicer and well built cable, i could not hear a difference in sound.

I'm by no means a cable expert, however, this does not screams quality to me.



So i decided to go with the Blu jean LC-1 Instead



Anything that is made in Japan or USA always have my support if pockets allow it

Elfather,
That's the kind of thing I see frequently with monoprice cables. Their cables generally work as well as any other, and if you get them plugged in and leave them there, they're fine. But, if you move cables around, they eventually show their lack of durability. I've had about 5 of their hdmi cables break on me. The ends separate, bend or snap off altogether.

I know everyone likes to rag on monster and other expensive brands, but monster makes better cables than monoprice.

I'm running most of my HDMI's from Monoprice and so far they've worked perfect, but then again I'm not moving them around. So i can't really speak in regards to their durability. But I'm sure you're not lying about them coming apart.

Yea sometimes i wonder if quality should really be overlooked in the name of functionality. But, I think sometime it just depends on the product and significance of such. In my case i had to do a run of 50 feet of in-wall rated sub cable, and as soon as i received and inspected the cable from Monorpice, i said to myself there is no way I'm going to run this ****** cable inside my walls. Judging by the quality you see in the picture above i just fell the ends were going to come apart during the process of fishing it. So i opted for the Blue jean LC1, it was about 10x as much, but it gave me a piece of mind knowing that it's going to last me forever.(hopefully)

I have tons of monoprice (and similiar) cables, and they never break from regular use (i.e. I don't bash into the cable, crush it, or do something else silly).
It could be some are unplugging the cables in a bad way, such that they are putting strain on the ends and enough to cause them to prematurely fail. Sort of like how you are supposed to grasp the plug, and not the wire of any given cable when unplugging it.