Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives?

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.