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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
muralman1
1,527 posts
 
Man, Dfhaleycko, you have said all there is to say, just about. For interconnects I would pay for Speltz's. It is far more sophisticated and stands the test against much more expensive ICs including silver foil.
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lesvan
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I bought the Paul Speltz anticables and I'm very, very pleased, I didn't do a backflip when I installed them but I just don't think about speaker wire anymore, it just doesn't cross my mind. I went from $500+ PADs to the anticables.
saxo OP
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Hey, DF, can you explain how you do the 12 gauge thing? You use a bunch of dielectric covered 12 gauge runs, twisted or braided together, with a jacket over?

Magnet wire is what gauge? And how do you do it? What's the difference in sonics with these two methods?
muralman1
1,527 posts
 
Magnet wire is a single wire coated with only the thinest polyethylene. That's all that is needed. All the other crap speaker makers pile on their multi thousand dollar cables, like the aforementioned Cardas line, impart distortion to the signal.

Magnet wire comes in any gauge. I use 12 gauge. I am soon to try short runs of 12 gauge polyethylene sealed ribbons.
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gammajo
846 posts
 
I am very happy with Guerilla wire, silver for the woofer and copper for the mid/tweet in a biwire configuration, reasonable price (I think about 400-$900 for 3 meter pair), high quality construction and service.
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