Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives?


I'm once again changing speakers, so I'll need two sets to shotgun biwire. I'm tired of seeing the prices asked, and the recommendations made, for multi-thousand dollar products.

I don't know if I'm interested in going the Home Depot extension cord route either, though.

What about low-moderate priced wire that sounds good without the high price tag? Something full, big sounding, extended without being bright, with a good soundstage?
saxo
why not try HD stuff,,,it's so cheap you have little to lose. I read that Xindak cables are a great deal,,,particularly used!
Check out Alpha Core. You should be able to get the MI-2 Veracity at a very reasonable price.
I am using the anticables now and love them...cost effective and sound fantastic

www.anticables.com
I use AlphaCore inductor 14AWG. I then unwind them into long strand of cables. I then use Scotch tape as insulator between the + and - . The sound is just slightly warm but overall not bad.

Here where you can by the Alpha core inductor:
http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=134&products_id=21
The .1mh should make plenty of cables.

Here is a pic of my finished product:
http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/andy2_v/?action=view¤t=Rear.jpg
I tried several different expensive wires, Audioquest, Kimber select, Cardas Golden Cross, and one or two others, and ended up liking Cardas Cross (NOT Golden Cross), especially in the "not bright" department. Cardas has a reputation for being warm (at least with the "Cross"-related lines), and I think there's some truth to that. The Cross wire is not inexpensive, but it is not in the thousands (unless you get a long length)-- I would say it's in the "sweet spot" of the Cardas line, several layers down from the expensive stuff, and yet actually more pleasantly balanced, for my ear.

I tried the different Cardas wires through the lending program of the Cable Company, and found those folks very easy to work with.

Good luck.