Inexpensive speaker cables

I myself am using a one foot pair of MG Audio Design top of line speaker wires which I attach to the speaker terminals of my present Martin/Logan SL-3 speakers.  Their  cost is $900 which is much lower than their 6 foot pair going for $4800.  Anyway I then attach 3 individual 18 gage Jenna Lab hook up wires to each and every-plus and minus-other ends of the MG Audio Design wires and hook them up to the speaker wire terminals to the amplifier being used itself.  That is 12 individual 18 gage Jenna Lab hook up wires beteen the amplifier and the one foot pair of MG Audio Design wires attached to the speakers.  The cost of the Jenna Lab hook up wires is $6 a foot.  A few years ago I was able to obtain a one foot pair of the then top of the line Shunyata speaker wires at the time and also had a bunch of Jenna Lab's 18 gage hook up wires to play around with and found out eventually that using three instead of one or two of the Jenna Lab 18 gage hook up wires works best.  It really works.   I have been using the top of the line Rega Orisis integrated amplifier and the results are truly impressive.  By the way, both Arnie Nudell and Paul Mcgowan use Mg Audio Design wires themself-Mr. Mcgowan to demo his Bascom King stuff these days at audio shows.  By the way I was kicked out of DIY Audio for presenting this same story-said it was spam.  Well my name is Alan Holvey and I live in Boulder Colorado and am only relating to you my observations.  I have no financial or personal involvement other than enjoying the results on my own audio system.

Canare 4S11. Outstanding bar none. You can buy it by the foot at Markertek and roll you're own or there are EBay sellers who offer ready made sets. Great for biwiring also.

I can't really tell if the Canare 4S11 is 4 multi-strand bundles or 4 solid core conductors. Has anyone had experience with solid core?

I am using 12G Auvio speaker wire. It was quite reasonable, about $2/ft, if I recall. It is a multi-strand blend of LOFC and silver coated LOFC. I use it in a bi-wire config. I heard a great increase in bass and a more defined, wider sound stage when I replaced 12G copper with the Auvio. Not much difference when I added the bi-wire.

It probably doesn't make any sense for me to try anything other than solid core from here. I've heard that some folks have used CAT 5 to good effect/

don't worry about that - the value is dubious at best

just get some decent cheap cables in there; do some room treatments

worry about spendy cables after you have spent your first stack of $10,000 bills on top notch speakers

I also use Canare 4S11 cables - I think a set of 10 footers cost me $60 or 70 for the pair, something like that, custom-made by someone on eBay.  

True story...local dealer let me bring those to the shop for a comparison against a set of Nordost ribbon cables.  I don't remember the Nordost model name, they were the wide, flat, sort of pinkish-transparent colored cables, retail was $7000 (this was 2014, so not sure if that price has changed).   Did a back and forth between my cheapo cables and the Nordost, on a system composed of an ARC integrated, ARC CD9, and DeVore speakers.   All I will say is that the result was...awkward.  I still have the Canare 4S11 cables.