Your favorite OCC speaker cable


I've gotten good sound with my Analysis Plus Crystal Solo interconnects and may go for their speaker wire. But I like to wait for something used to come along, and it could be a long wait.

In the meantime, if there's a speaker wire with OCC that you've liked, I'd be curious to know what's worked for you.
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if looking to be the cheapest OOC barsteward in the given audio forum police line-up, do internet searches for:

" Belkin Pure AV av53102-XX "
(the xx part being the length)

That is Belkin’s attempt to capture the AV audio cable market, back before the 2008 crash, when the engine of the economy was running amok. So everybody tried to get into everything.

In this case, Belkin manufacturing quite a bit of OCC speaker cable.

This came in rolls. 50 foot and 25 foot rolls, IIRC. 16g, multi strand and multi strand type (foil-ish and round wire)..pure OCC copper wire.

I bought 20x 50 ft rolls at $14.95 each, back when it was widely being dumped in all kinds of places.... and still have 10 of them.

Ah. here we go:
https://angelelectronics.ca/shop/cables/speaker-wire?product_id=11163
or longer uncut runs of 100 ft rolls, for HT, or...whatever:
https://www.officespecialties.com/belkin_av53102_100_pureav_silver_series_high_performance_speaker_w...

keep looking. it’s out there. but not forever.


+1 mglik on the Fideliums. Amazing cable: component level upgrade over SR Foundations (which I liked)
Thanks for the suggestions. The Fidelium cables seem interesting. The language on the website doesn’t tell me much about their invented alloy, but I suppose hearing is believing. I know OCC has worked well for many people and the list of companies using is it impressive, too. The idea of finding it bulk seems like a good way to go, though I am not sure my DIY efforts would be as good as a cable I’d buy! 
@teo_audio.   
Thank you for those links! So, basically, a $10.00 roll of the wire, which is 30’ long, will provide enough wire to make a single 8’ braided 6 lead wire. Two rolls, two 8’ runs, get some heat shrink, some sleeving, a bunch of audio note banana connectors and you should have a very nice pair of cables for very little money. 
Certainly a worthwhile and inexpensive experiment. 
cut the outer skins off and use the inner insulated conductors only. one step better again...
There is a neg and pos run for each foot of it. all packed in an outer skin. cut that outer skin off...
or, to say it differently, for clarity...with the single 30 foot roll, you actually have 60 ft of a single conductor. 30ft of red colored insulated wire --  and 30 ft of black colored insulated wire