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CEntrance Reserve Series Speaker Cables
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CEntrance Reserve Series Speaker Cables
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With a solid build that lives up to the CEntrance name, the Reserve Series speaker cables feature polyethylene insulation on the inside and a polyester grain finish on the outside—delivering strong environmental protection in a sleek package that'll stand the test of time. Using patented MultiBraid technology, these copper cables offer incredibly high reproduction accuracy, and the gold-plated terminals feature low connection impedance Read More
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keyboard_arrow_downNickMimi
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Mar 6, 2020
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Great friggin' cable for the money.
Dudes, I make my own cables regularly, I didn't need this cable, I wanted it and that's a big difference. Argue all you want about the acoustic properties, fact is making a cable THIS nice by hand with the hardware on it and at this thickness will cost you time and cash and only be offset by about $25. $25 was worth it for me so I'm buying a second for another use.
Recommends this product? Yes
Morri2
81
Mar 6, 2020
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I received these a few days ago from the last drop. They are well made, feel heavy and replace a set of Straightwire Music Conductors that I have had for some time. I could hear a notable difference right away- better bass extension, crisper highs and a broader soundstage. Snake oil or not these are great cables at a great price. I truly don't understand all the hate these have received. I plan on buying another set before they are gone.
Recommends this product? Yes
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5
Mar 11, 2020
some helpgul advice so i dont come across like TOO much of a curmudgeony asshole- spending a bit more on cables makes sense in some situations-build quality is important. a poorly made cable can definitely hamper your sound quality if the soldering is no good, same if the connectors are low quality and dont make a firm connection. In very humid environments, gold plated connectors are also far less likely to oxidize. in balanced cable runs, the quality of shielding makes a difference, too.
Morri2
81
Mar 11, 2020
negative-feedbackThrough the years I have owned some used AudioQuest, Kimber, Starightwire and Analysis cables that retailed at $300 to $600 and the sound and build quality of these are comparable. I do live in good old humid Florida by the way.
SteveDallas
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Mar 23, 2020
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Warm Overall Tonal Balance with Great Bass Punch. Sold in Pairs!
Compared with my previous cables, which were decent quality O2 free copper and Mediabridge banana plugs, these cables have a warmer overall tonal balance with more force in the bass frequencies. Two pairs of my speakers brutally reveal the hard edge in some less than great recordings, and these cables help blunt that, which is nice. And, they don't take too much detail away from great recordings. They strike a nice balance, methinks.
They are very well-made, although expect some of the banana plugs to arrive disassembled for some reason. Not a big deal, and easy to "fix".
Be aware the price is for 1 PAIR of cables. At the $50 price I paid, I assumed they were sold per cable, and I ended up with 4 pairs, instead of the 2 pairs I intended.
Recommends this product? Yes
kenwstr
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Jun 27, 2020
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I bought these some time ago and have used them to connect my Pioneer A400 amp to a pair of ProAc Extended Base Tablet (EBT) speakers. All this is vintage gear but very good vintage gear. The amp is 60W and the speakers 6-ohm nominal. The ProAc tablet series were a real breakthrough in bookshelf speakers and are still very sought after today, particularly the signature series. The EBT extends the lower bass frequency response a little.
Many people say that speaker cable doesn't matter. Well I suppose you can have that experience in most aspects of HiFi because, the only upgrade that makes a substantial difference is the one where you upgrade the worst piece of kit in your system. The fact is that whatever is worst in the signal chain nobbles the whole system. It doesn't matter how good your amp is if your speakers a terrible, & it doesn't matter how good your speakers are if the source driving them is bad. Either way will give you bad sound. In my experience, for most system that were lashed together on the cheap, the speaker cables are generally that worst element and in that case, upgrading them will make by far the biggest and most astonishing (night & day) improvement the owner has ever heard. This is not always the case however, just the usual thing I encounter.
For passive speaker cables, the 1st and most important property is low impedance (up to a point). Impedance matching is a basic underlying principle in all audio equipment. In most cases, manufacturers take care of this for you but there are a few exceptions. In PA, the way you connect a guitar pickup is one such exception, passive speaker cables are another. With passive speakers cables, impedance is of major importance up to a point. What is impedance? It is the combined effect of electrical properties, DC resistance, capacitance and inductance that impedes an electrical signal (AC). The amount that a signal is impeded depends on the frequency of the signal. For simplicity a nominal impedance is often stated, though this does not intuitevely reveal the frequency filtering effects that can occur.
Equipment manufacturers generally take care of this for you by making the output impedance of equipment hundreds or even thousands of times less than the input impedance. This is called impedance matching and it ensures the clarity and tonality of the signal is preserved. The problem is that when you connect a passive speaker that is as low as say, 4-8 ohms impedance, this means that the combined impedance of everything driving that, the amps output, plus cables, plus crossover, plus connectors must have an extraordinarily low impedance. Something in the order of 100 times less, so < 0.04 ohms for a 4 ohm speaker. The cable has to fit within this impedance budget. If it does not, while you still hear sound and music sounds like music. The clarity and tonality may suffer and sometimes quite substantially. The aim of all this is basically to try to get the low pass filtering (LPF) effect of the cables above 20kHz frequency which is considered the usual upper limit of human hearing. This is not a big ask, but in this respect, cables do matter at least up to this point. The usual solution in copper cables is simply a function of gauge and run length. The longer the cable, the thicker the conductors need to be to take care of DC resistance but this is by itself not enough. Cable construction very much influences capacitance and inductance. The dielectric properties of the insulative jacket & conductor spacing are important. All these things influence impedance not just simply gauge and length. Still, it’s not a big ask.
In my experience, including 30 years managing an auditorium PA, this is not as simple as it seems because performance specs on cables are almost never made available. If they are published by a reputable audio cable manufacturer, your better off going with what you know. If the specs are not available, you have to resort to trial and error which is an expensive time-consuming exercise. Personally I have always avoided the boutique cable market with their esoteric meaningless statements not backed up with any data.
I bought these Centrance because the price was good for an already made up cable. I tried them against some short 14ga zip chord because that is a basic entrance level standard. Unsurprisingly, the Centrance won that race by a country mile. Clarity and tonality are of a very high quality. The fast attack gives percussion quite a lot of punch and strings, oh so much subtle detail, it sounds as real as real could be.
I do have some misgivings about the banana plugs though. I do not like connectors that are made up of separate bits of metal. Like the screw on ends and the twirly bits of expanded metal intended to create spring loaded contact. IME these are likely places to harbour corrosion and create high impedance contact and reliability issues over time. Yes, gold alloy plated connectors do corrode too, especially in contact with dissimilar metals. I prefer solid single piece contacts. For the moment thought, they are working great and a bit of Deoxit gold will help them continue to do so.
The Centrance cables are little on the short side. They are fine for a small to medium room stereo setup where the amp can be placed between the speakers. But their length limits flexability.
Despite these concerns, I give it 5 stars because it's an excellant performance product for the money.
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A community member
Jan 1, 2020
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Pretty basic cable
I can’t see how these were ever $130. Packaging consisted of a plain clear plastic bag and bubble wrap in an ordinary cardboard box. Nothing to declare that they are CEntrance. Half of the banana jacks were loose in the bag and only two were fully tightened. Not overly impressed so far sadly.
Recommends this product? No
Brickcity77
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Mar 7, 2020
Hi there, off topic but my page says they went from $299 down to $50. Is that actually what they were selling for at some point? Cheers
Charbs
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Jan 7, 2020
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Noticeable sound improvement over basic speaker wire
Very well shielded, and much to my surprise the highs were clearer than my basic speaker wire. At $75 with the drop these feel like a great value.
Recommends this product? Yes
k0ss
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Mar 27, 2020
Imagine thinking that shielded speaker cables actually do anything to begin with. This cable is obviously marked towards sheep who have no idea how electronics works. They also took down one of my previous comments debunking this cable.
Real hard fact: A coat hanger will have the EXACT SAME quality of sound as this cable. Ya sure brass has a little more resistance then copper, but it's negligible. The reality is that that a 20kHz signal isn't hard to transmit, the skin effect isn't going to be apparent at all. A properly gauged stranded copper cable will preform objectively the same as this cable, even better if you're using more amperage and a higher gauge.
A shield will do absolutely nothing because the signal in the cable carries power. When was the last time you heard noise come out of your speaker without your amp on? Noise has power in the nanowatts. Your signal going to your speakers from your amp is watts.
Save your money. Get a giant roll of generic copper cable of proper gauge. Don't believe the nitwits who think the sound has somehow "changed". Because there's nothing about a copper cable that will change the frequency responce. It's objectively a tiny series resistor in the 20kHz spectrum, your speaker's 2ohm DC resistance is probably 100-1000 times higher then the cable resistance.
heysplangy
344
Mar 28, 2020
k0ssI know they're not shielded, you ignorant twit. wow, that was a lot of words to write just to let everyone know you're a moron.
Milky78
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Apr 9, 2020
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Cables cables cables
What can I say, the whole cable debate gets nasty. In my case I have an active set of Kanto speakers and needed one cable to run from the speaker with the amps in it to the passive speaker. I didn't need a cable as nice as this, but thought that one day I'd like to get better speakers, so happy to get some nice looking cables in the interim, seeing as they aren't that expensive. They look good, feel nice and do the job, nothing to complain about. Hopefully one day I'll have a ser of speakers that can put them to their potential. For now it looks a while lot nicer than the wire I had.
Recommends this product? Yes
Jc84
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Jan 18, 2021
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Great cables
For the price these out preformed my more expensive audioquest rocket 33 cables. Love the feel and weight on them too.
Recommends this product? Yes
dbsail5
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Oct 27, 2020
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very happy with the sound quality
well made
Recommends this product? Yes
Der_Klaviermann
217
Oct 27, 2020
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Very good cable
I don't have much experience with different speaker cables. However, in comparison to the Monoprice Monolith cable, I enjoy the sound of these cable better. The difference is marginal but audible.
The build is good and perform well with my speakers (LS50). I would recommend these!
Recommends this product? Yes
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