Speaker wire... Diy?

sleepwalker
A lot of people misunderstand where the concept of cable directionality originated. It was with balanced cables in pro audio and broadcast applications. You see, the concept is all about preventing ground loops in shielding whilst maintaining effective protection from interference. A true shield can only be connected to one ground point else it be rendered ineffective by conducting current due to a ground loop. Cable directionality was always given as the direction of signal chain flow, from source to destination, with the source being the defacto ground for shield.

>>>>I’m not terribly surprised people don’t know what “controlled for directionality” means. When I use the term I am referring to unshielded cables, you know, like Anti Cables, which are obviously unshielded, and many other cables. Shielded cables are also controlled for directionality in many cases. Follow?

But you’re right, a lot of people misunderstand where the concept of directionality originated. 🤗

I’m sure GK comes up short on many things 😙

Have you been peeking, Dave? 😬

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Over the years I’ve had commercial speaker cables to $15K and several DIY recipes. My favorite is a DIY of stacked, soft-annealed .999 silver foils and solid silver spades. Termination is solderless with compression fittings and all internal mating surfaces treated with Total Contact graphene paste. The cable is shielded with grounded, tinned-copper braid.  It entails numerous twists of teflon and pulls through silk and is tedious to build. There is around 1.5 lbs. of silver in it, totaling around $1K at commodity prices. A build with large gauge precious metals is likely prohibitive for a commercial cable at less than $15K MSRP. BTW, distributor and dealer margins on commercial cables are the highest in audio.