ANTI-CABLES by Paul Speltz: Anyone Using Them?

Tin_Cup: I don't understand what you mean about - over +. If they are braided, how is there any difference?

I started using the Speltz a while back and really like them soncially. Extraordinary clarity and lack of grain. A bit lighter in the bottom than my Audience AU24 but I haven't switched back. The longer term problem is the way they look. I'd be willing to pay quite a bit more for this cable if it were pre-spaced or braided and were more flexible (which I suppose would defeat the design).

I have been using the Speltz speaker cables for quite a while now, in my quite resolving system. I run two 10' runs per side (shotgun biwired).

Sure there are better, but at many multiples of the cost of the Speltz. The Speltz have bettered my Audience AU24s, Cardas Golden Reference and PAD Venustas, all great cables, in my system, to my ears. There is no lack of highs, transient response, dynamics or bass slam.

I have since covered them in a fiberglass cloth (1/4" from Michael Percy, keeping the high/midrange run separate from the bass run) and re-terminated them with Cardas rhodium spades, using WBT solder. Before I covered the wires in the fiberglass, I wrapped a short piece of electrical tape around the + and - wire of every run, every foot. This reduced the gap between wires which in turn reduced impedance, thus maintaining the integrity of the highs, transient response, dynamics and bass slam that the cables are capable of.

Aside from that, they now look great, sound great, and are very pliable.

I highly recommend the cables, and for the price, they are a bonifide steal.

The best buy in audio in my opinion. They bested my Audience AU-24, which floored me. Highly recommended!

I agree with most of the above posters. The Speltz cables may very well be the best buy in high end audio today.

The $100 XLR Anti-ics made my $3500 ics sound bloated in the bass and veiled in the highs in comparison. They exhibit little if any time smear. That's the mark of a very good cable.

However, I do not use the Speltz cables since my Audio Teknes are even better and are more musical. But I keep a complete set of the Speltz cables as a backup.

I would not be surprised if the Speltz cables could directly compete with most any ic or sc out there regardless of cost. For $60 a pair, you can't go wrong.

-IMO

Drubin, I tried them both ways...one anti-cable (left)braided with the positive wire over top of the negative wire and the Right anti-cables, braided with the negative wire over top of the positive wire and I like it better with the negative wire over top of the positive wire when braiding them. When braiding them... every Inch and a half I make a braide......This does sound better like this.