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05-18-2011, 02:28 PM
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When buying a brand new GK amp with bi-amp function, does it include a spekon cable that will work in bi-amp mode or do I have to buy a speakon cable separately?
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Last edited by Ogge : 05-18-2011 at 03:14 PM.
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05-18-2011, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Western PA | | | Not sure if it's still true, but at one time the cables came with the cabs but not amps.
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05-18-2011, 04:54 PM
|  | Everybody Wang Chung Tonight | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Houston Tx | | | If not, there is really nothing special about the GK speakon. Its just a 4 pin speakon cable, I made mine from 4 conductor 14awg SOOW cord and bought the ends from GC.
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05-18-2011, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Mississippi Coast | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hopkins  If not, there is really nothing special about the GK speakon. Its just a 4 pin speakon cable, I made mine from 4 conductor 14awg SOOW cord and bought the ends from GC. | +1
Remember though, that Bi-amp feature will only work with a compatible G-K cab.
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05-18-2011, 06:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: El Dorado Hills, CA | | | Yes, it is the cabs that come with them, not the heads. I have been using a 4-pin Live Wire 12 gauge speakon with my 1001RB-II and 410 NEO for a while now and cannot tell a difference from the GK speakon. Hope this helps!
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05-18-2011, 06:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Norhtifeld, Ohio | | | I have had three gk neo cabs that I purchased and all of them came with the speakon cable. |
05-18-2011, 07:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | The MBE cabs do not come with cables.
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05-19-2011, 05:37 AM
| | | | Thanks for the help guys!
Now I know I don't have to spend even more more money on cables after have spent alot of money on the amp and cab itself.
Actually I don't care whether it's a GK cable or something else, just wanted to save money. =) =) cheers! |
05-27-2011, 01:46 AM
|  | America's Favorite Hot Dog! | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CHI/NWI | | | You mean they're SUPPOSED to come with the cabs? I thought GC was doing me a favor by throwing that cable in for free. They even made me feel like a jerk about it lol!
Definitely don't use that cable with anything but a GK head. |
03-03-2012, 08:43 AM
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03-03-2012, 08:46 AM
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What exactly is a speakon cable? |
03-03-2012, 09:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Madison, WI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lowendgenerator You mean they're SUPPOSED to come with the cabs? I thought GC was doing me a favor by throwing that cable in for free. They even made me feel like a jerk about it lol! | The guy at my GC either pretended he didn't know anything about it or really was unaware of it. I had to contact GK and they sent me one.
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03-03-2012, 09:35 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I don't think the bi amp speakon cable makes a difference. My church has a gk 1001 rb-ii and a gk neo 412 and before we bought the bi-amp speakon cable we used a regular 2 conductor speakon cable. We compared both cables and it sounds the same. Just save a little bit of money and buy a regular spekon cable. |
03-03-2012, 10:04 AM
|  | F Cleffin it ya F cleffers | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | | | I got 2 ends from a local electronics supply shop for 5.21 a piece (You'll want Neutrik NL4FX) and I got 3 feet of 12 gauge 4 conductor communications cable, I couldn't find that large of shielded speaker cable in my city. I got the cable from an electrical supply shop, it was free since they usually sell commercial amounts and I was polite.
The communications wire was twisted which I have been told helps for shielding, don't know if it's true or not but my cabs run just as quiet as with the one pro made cable I have.
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Last edited by DiabolusInMusic : 03-03-2012 at 10:05 AM.
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03-03-2012, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by DiabolusInMusic I got 2 ends from a local electronics supply shop for 5.21 a piece (You'll want Neutrik NL4FX) and I got 3 feet of 12 gauge 4 conductor communications cable, I couldn't find that large of shielded speaker cable in my city. I got the cable from an electrical supply shop, it was free since they usually sell commercial amounts and I was polite.
The communications wire was twisted which I have been told helps for shielding, don't know if it's true or not but my cabs run just as quiet as with the one pro made cable I have. | Any conversation between the speaker output of any amp and a speaker/cabinet needs to be UN SHIELDED . NO twist, zip, nada. Just two conductors, of EQUAL gauge running parallel inside the jacket.
Same reason you would not use the same cable normally to connect your bass to the input of the amp. "Shielding" a speaker cable puts stress on the output stage of an amplifier, that much I have been told and is evidenced by the fact that every musical equipment manufacturer since the invention of electricity uses a two conductor cable with no shielding. |
03-03-2012, 12:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Atascocita,TX. | | | GK1001RBI...
years back when I bought this amp head above new, that cable was in the box amp came in. I only used SWR cabs with that head so never used that Speakon cable.
Later cut that 6' cable in half, bought some speakon ends and made me two, regular 3' speaker cables. Cables getting used now.
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