Bulk cable for rear speakers

DH labs pricing is horrifying, especially for rear speakers.  This is unfinished cable and no doubt substantially hi margins for the seller.

Just go to hardware store like Ace hardware find those round black cables on a roll.Perfect for rear speakers.

@jumia Your last statement is subjective, and the pricing is value driven for the level of performance. Their products satisfy some of the best quality components and speakers, but as I said, Canare is okay for more basic applications. 

jumia Your last statement is subjective, and the pricing is value driven for the level of performance. Their products satisfy some of the best quality components and speakers, but as I said, Canare is okay for more basic applications.

Objectively; isn’t a rear set of HT speakers a basic application?
(We are generally pretty distracted by the visuals to notice a lot happening in the HT sound at the back.)

The front speakers, and a 2 channel especially, speaker cables and the rest of the chain, make a more noticeable difference - than sound during a movie.

Hence; I think cheaping out on the rear speaker cables makes a lot of sense.

Putting the rear cables into a plastic conduit, so that different ones can be pulled through the wall later without destroying anything also makes sense. And putting in larger sweeps make pulling a cable through a lot easier than a tight 90.

Having tried Canare 4S11 in a mini system that drops like a rock at around 55Hz I can say that it does sound good in the mid/HF's.

This said, aside from it being difficult to strip it's also quite stiff.

You might look into Canare 4S8 (16 gauge) which is also well reviewed and cheap as chips.

DeKay