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Speaker wire... Diy?

I am new to this, so please bare with me. I always thought 12 gauge speaker wire, bare on each end, was best. But there is Kimber, Nord, etc, that seem to be incrementally better! Can I buy the components and put together my own $17000 speaker wires? If so, where can they be purchased, and which are good enough to be used? Which terminations are best for sound? Which wire? Length? Guage? 
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ieales
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Have you tried them? obviously not

Many others around the world have tried them and prefer them to commercially available products.

I leave it at that :-)
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It's entirely possible that the Helix cable could make someone prefer their sound. I just can't imagine what the system sounds like sans 5mH in the -ve lead.

Some eat MickieD's. No accounting for taste.
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dave_b
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Helix site smells of Chinese knock off stuff...weird vibe 🤔
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dave_b
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The power of the Peter...DHC is what we’re talking about?  Or are we back to DIY stuff again 😕
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geoffkait
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Does anyone have a theory why - all things being equal - cables with white jackets sound better than cables with jackets that are black or another color? Just curious. You can actually test this theory by wrapping your existing cable or power cord with white tape. Check it out. No, I’m not hot dogging you. 🌭
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dave_b
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GK deals with the subliminal, existential reality of audio.  More of a Zen like sensibility toward things acoustic.  Suggestibility flows vigorously through such psychologically fluid frontiers.  PT Barnum maneuvered through similar terrain quite successfully, sans the adornment of misappropriated and dubiously applied scientific theory.
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