Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives?

>>I've never heard a system that didn't benefit from Paul's cables.<<

Then you need to get out more.

For the record your system is moderately high end, not very high end.

It's pretty high end, Bill, as far us plebes are concerned.

Muralman, you say "Don't twist Speltz's SCs." Why? I think you must twist them, or at least run them in very close proximity.

In my system, the LAT international silver/copper hybrid clearly sounds better than the anti-cables - not even close. I won't spend truckloads of money on a cable, but there is a difference. However, LAT cables may not sound better in other people's systems so I won't presume that they will. Ditto for DH labs and AudioHorizons.

Hi Dan,
You'll note that I said it was not "very" high end. No way in hell is a VPI Scoutmaster "very" high end. Ditto on the Ayre electonics.

The table, preamp, and amp are high quality components from reputable companies but very high end is a stretch IMO.

His wire argument is totally bogus.

Before this gets off track and evolves into a pissing contest about what's very high end and what's not let me add a few caveats to my prior posts.

To begin only a few components from a handful of manufacturers, IMO, can be considered "very" high end.

That being said my list of very high end products would include top offerings from the following, but not limited to these, manufacturers (in no particular order):

MBL
Goldmund
Zanden
Wilson
Focal JM Labs
Aesthetix
Dali
Dcs
Audio Note Kondo

We could add another couple dozen I suppose and everybody's list would be different. OTOH, we could all agree that certain products are not very high end. To list names is not fair and actually unimportant in that regard.

Very high end, I admit, is a subjective, relative, and nebulous term. I’d opine that less than 5% of the gear for sale on Audiogon meets my personal “very” high end criteria. If you agree, fine. If not, oh well.