Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives?

I just came back. Now, with more listening there is a glitch in my system that I must remedy. If I had not heard it, though much more faintly, with the Speltz cables in, I would question my switch.

It is true, that though my system is even more transparent, and focused, the highs are too hot. This is a system that began as too dark. I know there are remedies.

I just recently replaced Theta bypass caps in my amps with V-Caps. That change brought a marked improvement, as others said it would. They also introduced that shake too much of Tobasco. Before I even think of going back to my Anti-Cables, I will try yet another bypass cap type.

What is this cable? Think very thin ribbon.

Bill,
If your list is "very" high end, would Atma-Sphere be "extremely" high end?:)

Making a ribbon speaker cable takes some work. You need to get some 12 gauge very thin copper ribbon. I am talking about thousands of an inch. Then you need to lightly sand with 320 paper and spray a thin coat of polyurethane. Do this to both sides. Leave the last half inch unvarnished. It is really hard to get this around a post. so I used a high quality rhodium on silver spade. The difference in sound over the magnet wire must be heard.

By the way, I probably will never replace my Speltz ICs.

Say, what? What is 12 g. thin copper ribbon and where do you get it? Can you take a photo of this creation of yours?

So, the Speltz ICs are good, huh? What have you compared them to?

I won't hijack this thread any further, but appropos Audiofeil's list, take it from a long-term user, Atma-Sphere is right up there and the reason, it just occurred to me - duh - that he didn't mention them is because he sells the product. Kudos to him for that.