Warning! Do Not Buy Cheap Speakon Cables

[agedhorse]

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Definite knock-off.

 

[S-Bigbottom]

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I love you.

 

[Desmoface]

Ugh, so I just bought a new Genzler Magellan 800 and have to pick up a cable, after reading through all 11 pages of this thread I'm going to spend the money and go with what that man himself recommends. Just looking at the pictures, and doing numerous searches on Neutrik NL4 connectors, the pictures in the link @agedhorse provided look to be the REAN Neutrik connectors, are these still good to go? I could be wrong because I'm new to all this...just want to make sure before I hit the buy button. Thanks again, everyone.

These are the real thing:
NL213GA | NL4FC Speakon equipped 13/2 Speaker Cable

 

[Desmoface]

I couldn't edit or delete the above post, I placed the order as per agedhorse's recommendation. Thank you!

 

[agedhorse]

That’s just the older version of the Neutrik plug (that’s still available to some OEM manufacturers)

 

[mikeGJ]

This guy does it right.

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[plugwash]

I haven't actually ever seen SpeakOns with the rean brand and can find no reference to these on the rean website.

Granted things might have changed since you made this post,

When I look on the Rean website I see they list "speaker connectors" and "power connectors". From the pictures they are pretty obviously speakon and powercon connectors, but they don't use the names. I presume this means in turn that resellers also can't use the names, which presumablly helps to keep these connectors away from the retail market.

 

[agedhorse]

Granted things might have changed since you made this post,

When I look on the Rean website I see they list "speaker connectors" and "power connectors". From the pictures they are pretty obviously speakon and powercon connectors, but they don't use the names. I presume this means in turn that resellers also can't use the names, which presumablly helps to keep these connectors away from the retail market.

Correct, Rean is for the OEM market primarily. The brand is owned by Neutrik and shares the same safety certification files as Neutrik branded SpeakOn connectors.

 

[Balog]

This thread makes me look at the cable I put together from Neutrik speakons from Redco and feel extremely happy.