Description
*Price is per metre for unterminated cable! Please add the quantity needed to cart and include in the 'order instructions' how you would like your cable lengths split up. E.g if you order 6m of cable, please say whether you would like a single 6m length, or a 3m pair, or 2m and 4m etc. Then please also add the number of either Banana, Ohmic Spade, or Ohmic Banana plugs that you need to your order (two for each terminated end, so usually eight for a pair of cables), along with the number of Chord Trousers that you need (one for each terminated end, so usually four for a pair of cables), and we will terminate your cables for you at our Lincolnshire showroom.
RumourX speaker cable
What Hi-Fi? Awards 2019, 2020 and 2021 Best Buy / Best Accessory. The prime speaker cable choice for any high-spec sound/vision installation. High performance technology with discreet proportions. Tried, tested and recommended by audio manufacturers, custom installers and end-users.
Chord Rumour was Chord's second attempt at producing a speaker cable. The first being a copper and polyethylene flat design in single and bi-wire configuration called Myth/Legend. They were also investigating speaker cables that used silver-plated conductors in combination with PTFE insulation. They 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, they could hear the noise floor of the system improve. Chord then reached an ideal twist ratio and designed the cable around this.
When Chord 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. In fact, the fantastic Chord ShawlineX 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 RumourX.
Declaration of Performance (CPR compliance) certificates available here (PDF)
Technical Specifications
| Conductor | ChorAlloy |
| Insulation | XLPE |
| Configuration | Twisted pair |
| Shielding | None. PVC outer jacket |
| AWG | 16 |
| mm2 | 1.31 |
| Diameter | 6mm |
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