Blue Jeans Cable Ten White Speaker Cable, with Welded Terminations (Single Cable - for one Speaker), Assembled in USA (6 Foot, Bananas to Bananas)
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ricardo caamaño
> 24 hourExcelente producto
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Mark60
> 24 hourWell-made and worth the money.
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Palp
> 24 hourReceived the cable and it did not disappoint. Great locking banana plugs, so not cheap BFAs. Sound is clear and not bright. I am happy!
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Daniel Chu
> 24 hourSome people believe in cables and some dont. I think they are both right. Let me introduce you to the concept of psychoacoustics. With the identical audio equipment in the identical listening environment with the same song, the same measuring instrument will always measure exactly the same doesnt matter what time of day or which day you measure it. If you sit on the exact same spot and listen to the same song, the quality of the sound will be different depending on whether you are tired, how much alcohol you have consumed, your mood, etc. That is because we cant measure the sound, we can only interpret sound which is affected by the state of our mind. If you put in some exotic cables and hear a better result, its MOSTLY because your mind WANTS to hear better result and you DO hear better results. Therefore better cables sound better because those who believe that they do will interpret them as better. Those who dont believe it will not want to hear a difference. We will never be able to prove it becuase we can only use intruments to measure objectively and instruments dont have a mind.
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Richard in St. Paul
> 24 hourIm very satisfied with this bespoke speaker cable. I wont make claims for its sonics other than to say it is allowing our Luxman amp and Meadowlark Audio Herons to sing every bit as beautifully as they should. I will praise its quality construction and smart locking system, which are visibly and tactilely a step up from the commodity norm. And Ill add a sentimental reason for going with Blue Jeans Cable. Like a lot of observers, I was impressed several years ago by how its owner stood up for his rights (and by extension, everyone elses) when a certain big company was trying to bully small fry in the industry on baseless patent and trademark claims. I could have ordered any companys cable. When it came time to get something better, I remembered the values of this proud independent American manufacturer.
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Mark van Berkel
> 24 hourThis is an excellent speaker cable for a very good price. These are quality! I have purchased other Blue Jeans Cable products and these cables do not disappoint.
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P. Menon
> 24 hourExcellent quality, as always.
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Yosefaaron
> 24 hourReally awesome cables with excellent locking banana plugs that I have never seen before on speaker cables. You have to unlock them first by loosening the connectors and inserting them into the speaker binding posts, then tighten them for an ultra secure fit that can’t be accidentally pulled out or dislodged. You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars on snake oil , so called audiophile cables , that won’t do anything more than lighten your wallet. Love these !
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Andy Wintheiser Sr.
> 24 hourLove me some Blue Jeans Cable! Seriously, theyre a high-value / low-cost proposition, and BJC as a company has always been aa pleasure to work with. They made a unique adapter for me once and the entire process was great.
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Rob M.
> 24 hourReplaced cables with the screw connect bananas. Love them
BJC Speaker Cable, made with our Ten White cable stock and Welded Locking Banana Plugs
At Blue Jeans Cable, we were never happy with the conventional methods of attaching speaker cable to banana plugs. Setscrews are fine, but lack pull strength; compression connections are never as strong as they look like they"re going to be; and solder, on large high-mass connectors, is slow going and tends to cause a lot of insulation meltback. Our solution: ultrasonic welding. Our Sonobond Ultrasonic Welder (made in West Chester, PA) welds the copper wire to the brass banana plug body without the excessive heat associated with conventional welding, fusing copper to brass in a tight, strong, low-resistance, reliable connection.
Our Ten White speaker cable stock is a 10 AWG cable with each conductor made up of 65 strands of bare copper for high flexibility.
Ultrasonic-Welded Locking Bananas: a Blue Jeans Cable exclusive feature
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The PlugThis is our locking banana plug, disassembled. Notice anything? There"s no attachment mechanism for the wire -- no set screws, no clamps, nothing but a channel for the wire to sit in. |
The WelderThis is one of our Sonobond Ultrasonic Welders, in our Seattle shop. Unlike heat-based methods of welding, it drives a large amount of ultrasonic vibration into the junction between the wire and the plug, fusing them together. |
The WeldHere"s a plug body after welding. The surface structure of the wire breaks down during welding, allowing dissimilar metals to fuse. The resulting weld has extremely low contact resistance and high pull strength. |
The "Locking" FeatureThe outer collar of the banana plug is threaded. It should inserted into the binding post with the collar "backed off" from the plug end (top image). When the plug is in the binding post, simply turn the locking collar clockwise (bottom image) and it pushes a central pin forward, expanding the splines for a firm engagement in the post. |
