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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? 
ddjr
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dave_b
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You mean a can of electrons, don’t you GK?  Tell us how they flow...cause I really wanna know...I really wanna know ..know..know..know...how they do!!
See what I did there...used a WHO motif and stuff?  Pretty cool right?  
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This isn’t multiple choice, but I’ll give you two more choices anyway.
ddjr OP
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My Kimber cables came today. I have one speaker run with Kimber, one with regular old lampcord speaker wire. I honestly don't hear any difference. Both ends of the kimbers are banana clips. They just slide into the hole, yes? Not into the hole in the threaded post?
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dave_b
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So electrons don’t get exchanged back and forth through the conductive material?  Your telling me my text books are wrong?  How dare you sir 🧐
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The electrons are simply the charge carriers. And they are virtually not moving. They are not the music and they are not the signal. Oh, did I just give you the answer? Ps I’m going out on a limb here saying you probably don’t remember a single thing from your textbooks. You have one more guess. Better make it a good one.
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