Looking for really fine cables at really low price

Hi grannyring,
I have a question for you about your post.

I have been enjoying my Western Electric NOS wire greatly. I use 10 gauge for both speaker and power cables.

Me too.  I am currently using two twisted-pair runs (7awg per pole) to bi-wire each speaker.  I have considered double quads (which would be 4awg per pole!) but since I am only using 1M lengths to connect my monoblocks to my speakers, I suspect that anything over the 7awg I am using now would be overkill.  Also, I like that the NOS WE 10awg wire came in pairs and is machine-twisted so the twist is very consistent and probably better than can be done DIY by hand.  

I am however using twisted quad runs as power cords for my 300wpc Class A amplifiers.  The ground is also a pair of 10 awg wires so the total power cord consists of 6 of the 10 awg runs. No current limitations here and they sound better than anything else I have tried.

I tried the new Duelund match of the 16 gauge WE stranded/tinned wire and am very impressed. They better the Belden ic's pretty easily really.

Not surprised since I never really liked the sound of the Belden ICs. I am using a whole different thing here made from multiple small gauge solid core wires of exceptional purity and the Belden wire ICs didn't even compete, they comparitively dulled the sound. 

They better the 16 gauge WE wire also. Best ic's I have ever built. Great wire for unshielded ic's!

I assume you are talking about ICs made from the 16 gauge NOS WE wire?  I never tried making those but based on what everybody is saying about the Duelund wire, I may consider a couple of sets of ICs made from that wire.  Thing is, I have tons of the NOS WE wire here but none of the Duelund wire.  However, it appears Partsconnexion does indeed have that wire back in stock so it is available.  

My question is, how close is the sound of the Duelund wire ICs to that of the NOS WE 16 awg wire ICs?  If they are close, I will likely use the WE wire I have to make a set but if the difference is quite noticeable, then I will probably just go ahead and splurge for the Duelund wire.  I know how these things go and sometimes people like something "new" simply because it is new.  Even though the WE wire has a plastic coating, I believe it is special and very good sounding.  

Another consideration for me is that Jupiter has made an 18 awg tinned stranded copper in cotton hook-up wire for years.  I wonder why that wire hasn't caught on more since I would suspect 18 awg may actually be a bit better for ICs than 16 awg.  I haven't tried the Jupiter tinned/stranded wire either although I have successfully used their other copper or silver in cotton wires and have found their stuff to be very good.  It is half the price of the Duelund wire (although one gauge smaller).

Norm..I have not heard the Exemplar cables but i would put the Cerious Technology cables..especially the speaker and power cords..up against any cables up to $5k for 1/10th the cost....I replaced my CT-1U HF speaker cables and my CT-1 pcs with them..They are that good..

mitch2, the new Duelund stranded and tinned wire makes a better sounding IC than the WE16. I wish Duelund would make a 10 gauge version of it! 

It is more dynamic, resolving, and extended while still retaining that special musical tone of the WE16. I did not shield the IC's and used the Canare f10 rca connectors per advice I learned from this thread. Total cost of my ICs is some $50 and I know they sound better than $2,000 IC's! 

mitch2, my power cord only uses one 10 gauge run, not two. Never tried two, but may now. Too thick for my connectors however?

I am using Furutech  FI-11(Cu) plugs/iecs.
The Furutech connectors clamp the wires in a way that allows two wires to be clamped at the same time. The screw that tightens the clamp is located in the middle of the opening for the wires.  I believe this allows the use of spades to be tightened by the clamp but it also allows either the strands of a single wire to be split in halves which each half twisted like a forked snake tongue, or for two separate wires to be used.   IME, the 10 awg WE wire just fits on each side, so I have used two 10 awg wires per pole, plus two for the ground.  Good thing the WE wire is so flexible because terminating that is a bear.  Check the link below and scroll down to see the picture of the back of the plug, where the wires go in.   All of their models terminate similarly.
http://www.furutech.com/technology/
I liked the idea of using two 10 awg wires per pole for my two big amplifiers, and I made a similar cord to power my Isoclean conditioner that powers all my front-end digital stuff.  From the conditioner to the individual digital gear (i.e., server, dac, power supply, etc.), and for preamps, the twisted pair of 10 awg wires is plenty big.