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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
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jaymark
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LAT international makes a very nice set of speaker and interconnect cables; Joseph Chow at Audio horizons makes nice speaker wire as well. I have the anti-cables and in my system, or maybe my ears, I thought they were OK but let through some digital nasties that these other cables didn't. DH labs also makes a pretty decent cable.
viclondon
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Saxo, please note that Speltz and Anti Cable are the same thing.
I agree with others: of the very cheap ones I have tried Speltz Anti Cables are by far the best. Also very suitable for biwire since they are so thin and can be twisted together
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stringreen
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I've posted this before. I have a very high end system (you can see it listed under Opinions Please in Members systmes), and absolutely know that Anti-Cables are the best. I've had them all at one time or another, but am quite happy with Paul's cables. They look like wierd but sound wonderful.
audiofeil
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>>I have a very high end system and absolutely know that Anti-Cables are the best<<

For your system that might be true.

For others' systems you have no idea.

Good luck to you.
fatparrot
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Wow I thought expensive meant $1,000 for speaker cable. You as a group seem to think it's reasonable. And all I had to drink was coffee.
Was it Starbucks coffee? Just goes to show that beauty (and expense) is in the eye of the beholder :-)
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