No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need

Cardas, AQ, Furutech and others make their own connectors and could easily make a connector to handle up to 0 gauge if they wanted to or felt they needed to. They would love to sell such huge cables and connectors and could charge big bucks for them. They would make even more money. This whole idea of huge gauge, when needed, would be a brand new marketing and sales opportunity for them to capitalize on. The argument suggesting they only make and sell smaller gauge wire and connectors out of nessesity is just plain out of step with the truth. The truth is these companies just don’t buy into this notion based on their own base of knowledge and testing. Are they right? Is the OP right? I think various methods and designs can sound great.

Mapleshade, Michael Green Audio and others passionately believe that the smallest of gauge wire makes for the best sound. Polar opposite of the OP. Just their particular theory and notion.

Thus far we have a couple of examples where the OP style cable sounded better than the prior cable being used. Problem is in two of these cases the original cables were nothing special. In looking at pictures one set had bare copper wire ends that appeared to be completely oxidized and needed to be cut away and re-stripped for better sound.

Looking forward to seeing the OP cables being compared to higher quality, properly built cables that have been well maintained.

I agree with @shadowcat2016 and am planning a build. It is fun for me both as an avid DIYer and cable seller.

@glupson,I am very well aware.But going through all the pages, there is a lot of confusion and conflict. Anyone who opposes the OP is seen as a dealer. Only OP has the best technology. Not sure if he can prove that by comparing or challenging anyone. I also don't see OP's system for the actual wire he has created or using.

It seems that a lot of posts were clutter. Not a big deal. Lesson was learned, especially when those who wrote them have a clear interest on this thread. From now on I’ll try to avoid them. Let’s call it spam.

I’ll rather concentrate on answering people’s questions, of what cable I recommend to their setup, and add new sharing to my table and post it, with comments if any.

Regarding some big names in the industry that do their own spades and banana plugs, I doubt it. It is most likely they have an OEM source, to order and buy from. However, even if they do make spades and banana plugs, it is not a good idea to connect those directly to the thick cable (like a 4-0 AWG). From my point of view, they never wonted too, as they never thought this is the solution for the speaker cables problem. If they would, they most likely would try it already.

Mr. stevecham

If audio signals and video signals would be the same, most likely we would need only one name for them. They have a different nature, especially that speaker cables deliver a higher power / current than a signal cable, like an interconnect cable or a cable TV.

For the same reason, USB cables are different than video, and so is LAN. All for a reason. Video and interconnect cables need shield (EMI / RFI) while speaker cables don't. The idea to put them all on the same pile and assume that if it is a cable it can be any cable, is basically wrong. Every type of cable has its individual design and rules, its individual property and its individual task.

Mr. grannyring

Thanks for coming forward and saying you are a cable seller. Just for a curiosity, how do you match and offer a speaker cable to a customer? Could you please describe the process and the method to do that match? Thanks.

I tend to agree to your say regarding the so far made DIY cables to be properly built cables that have been well maintained (for under $60 they are very nice and good). They can do to improve that DIY in time. You say "higher quality". Do you mean higher quality built?

What is higher quality cable, if the new DIY tried here provided way better sound than the previous cable. The only parameter that a speaker cable has as a quality is its resistance, to match the amp's  spec. Nothing is of a higher quality than a perfect resistance match.

The cable I built and sent to Vancouver BC, my friend took it to a Hi-Fi store to compare it. The sales man used a Nordost cable worth $3,000 to compare with. My cable performed better than the Nordost. It was not a perfect match to that amp. (Anthem) that they hooked up with. Most likely that the Nordost was even a worst match. When my friend hooked it up to his amp (Emotiva) things really got nice. You can read his testimony…a few posts earlier.