Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives?

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?

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.

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.

Viridian, stop stringing him along :-)

speaker wire to my dull set of ears do not make nearly as much difference as interconnects, even though they're often enormous and may even need two people to lift! okay, maybe not now, but that seems to be the direction the industry is heading towards. btw, what speakers are you changing to?
there is one requirement though-- poorly made terminations are a disaster at either end of the cable, especially if the cable is stiff and/or heavy. i once had a spade lug barely hanging on from a well-used large set of cables, and the store had to re-attach it using as little solder as possible. and once you've used locking bananas you'll be spoiled for anything else. but i still have a set of esoteric multistranded OFC wire in the closet that i used on a pair of SF Guarneri's while i shopped for a "better" set. at a few bucks a foot they sounded fine to me. i later upgraded to transparent ref. w/MM. they look nice, but i didn't really notice a huge difference. that's not to say there wasn't an improvement, but it just was NOT a dramatic change.