Home Depot speaker cable, which one to buy

everything you guys say makes sense to me. I was just trolling for something really cheap but will probably just buy some Morrow cable.

Thanks!

DIY is an obvious ploy to get us to save money!

sheesh! just kidding... :^D

the truth is I am lazy and just ordered some Morrow SP1 cables which are on sale, 1/2 price!

thanks

thanks Paul for taking the time to post!

It seems you could go out and buy some 12 or 14 gauge wire anywhere and get good results but I will go to Home Depot and see what they have.

I bought the Woods Yard Master Patio Cord to make the White Lightning but have a question.

Is it important that the wire is used in the manner explained? In other words, I would like to use two leads of one cable to run to the positives of one speaker and two leads on another cable to run the negative leads (bi wire config) instead of green and white together for positive and black alone for ground.

I presume this would mess up the capacitance and resistance of the official White Lightning formula but thought it would be worth asking as it would make it easier to run the wire.

thanks again guys!

Phil

thanks Clio09 I hooked it up using the 6moons config.

I just twisted the ends together (without tinning the ends) and cut it into 8' bi wire runs to my Audio Note kit3 speakers.

Initial impressions of the White Lightning with only 30 minutes on them is:

nice midrange tone with good inner detail, slightly rolled off in the highs, the bass is a bit loose, overall nice tone and very listenable.

Not a major differance from my Audio Note Lexus bi wire cable.

I will give further impressions comparing it to the Morrow SP1 I have coming in a few weeks.

thanks Stringreen though I am so happy with the White Lightning I will probably not bother with the Home Depot THHN.

I did get the Morrow SP1 bi wire and listened to them for about a week. They had 100+ hours on them. I really liked them and during the listening time started imagining I may keep them. They have good detail and a neutral quality though a bit thin sounding - stop there! How good would the White Lightning be? A bit more full I imagined...

Well the truth is the White Lightning stomps the SP1. The musicians are back in my living room. The sound is much bigger and full sounding with low level details everywhere. It is like the governor has been taken off and my rig is running full bore.

To those that imagine the Woods cable has changed from the original formula a few years back I think it is safe to assume it has not. These things are really good. I paid $6.88.

I think I prefer them to the Audio Note Lexus ($1,500.00)which I was always very happy with and would not have sold except I am downsizing a bit.

and, like I mentioned above, when this is so good why bother with the Home Depot wire? They have to be the best deal I ever got on anything hi fi.

thanks again everyone!

Phil

fwiw: Mike Morrow recommends his cables sound the best with 400 hours of break in and I put about 150 on mine so take my 'review' with a grain of salt. Also I would like to say Mike is an all around good guy to deal with.

But in all my years I have not heard as much break in difference in wire as would be needed for the Morrow to surpass the White Lightning.

Clio09 it seems your comparison of WL to SP3 is about right, I can not imagine even the SP2 surpassing the WL...