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Chord Company Rumour X Speaker Cable
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Chord Company Rumour X Speaker Cable

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Chord Company Rumour X Speaker Cables

This cable is sold in single lengths, for a stereo pair please order a quantity of 2.

Chord Rumour was our second attempt at producing a speaker cable. The first two being Myth and Legend – copper and polyethylene flat cables in single and bi-wire configuration. We were also investigating speaker cables that used silver-plated conductors in combination with PTFE insulation. We had been experimenting with twisted pair conductor configurations, as at the time, heavy gauge parallel conductors were the standard for speaker cables.  By twisting the conductors together, we could hear the noise floor of the system improve. We reached an ideal twist ratio and designed the cable around this.

When we launched Chord Rumour in 1996,  it was one of the smallest speaker cables available (16 AWG). Retailers would take it into their demo rooms looking dubious and come out looking surprised and delighted.  It sounded a lot bigger than it looked, it carried detail and dynamics really well and it was more coherent than just about any other cable around.  As people got over the size and listened, rather than looked, it became a very popular cable. Apart from cosmetic changes it remained unchanged for many years.

The size, the colour and the performance mean it’s still a popular cable. Our Chord Shawline shielded speaker cable shares the same conductors.

Previous versions of Rumour speaker cables used PTFE insulation (often referred to as Teflon™) and until the arrival of Taylon®, this was our “go to” material. Although expensive, PTFE offered the best performance.

Material technology is constantly developing and improving and alternatives to PTFE are now available. While the high cost of Taylon® prevents us from using this in all of our ranges, we were able to find a suitable family of insulation materials known as XLPE (Cross-linked Polyethylene). One version of this material looked particularly interesting and following listening tests, proved to be clearly better than the PTFE in Rumour speaker cable – now known as Rumour X.

Technical Specifications

  • Conductor Silver-plated OFC
  • Insulation XLPE
  • Configuration Twisted pair
  • Shielding None. PVC outer jacket
  • AWG 16
  • mm2 1.31
  • Diameter 6mm
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Great service
10 August 2022  | 

Replacing cable that in the wall whilst having a log fire installed and I could not decide between this and the Odyssey X and plumped for this to replace my 15 year previous rumour. Not a night and day different but as in my humble opinion my system is well sorted for my needs and sounds great.

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CLEAN SOUND
25 December 2020  | 

I bought this to replace my already excellent Clearway cable. First impression on looking at it was how much thinner the cable was compared to my old cable, second impression was it was quite brash sounding, but it needs a run in period and it does sound cleaner than the Clearway, a little less weighty in the bass, but the treble is brighter. It is well made and the silver plated strands look good! Great for smaller speakers, if you want more weight/bass go for the Odyssey X!

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Great service & product as always
23 October 2019  | 

Fantastic service as always. Very impressed with these cable. Replaced Clearway and the step up is worth it. The cables are very thing which does make them tricky to get flat.

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