Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives?

Man, Dfhaleycko, you have said all there is to say, just about. For interconnects I would pay for Speltz's. It is far more sophisticated and stands the test against much more expensive ICs including silver foil.

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.

Don't twist Speltz's SCs. He twists his ICs for you. They are his better product IMHO

I have made a speaker cable much better than the Anti-Cable, and have replaced my anti-cable with it.

LOL What was that song refrain? oh yeah, "You don't piss into the
wind...."

Most of the time people spend a hundred grand on audio is because they are
in a sucker rut. My system cost less than twelve grand. Set up against one
notch less than an Audio-Note system can be, mine wins hands down. Silver
everything, oil capacitors, and a $140,000 price tag can't make up for the
power and finesse of my system.

Start with the speaker. The Apogee Scintilla is argued to be the greatest
speaker ever made. The amps I am powering it with play with it's 1 ohm like it
was a toy. My preamp, by the same builder, is second to none. I am sure of
that. At least it has trounced all comers.

My source, including an Audio Note DAC is a meager affair that has received a
great fortifying operation by the same builder. It is in the power supply, and
cap choices that make the difference.

There are relatively few outright geniuses in the audio world. Some just don't
make good businessmen. That's why you haven't heard of them, or know
their triumphs. In audio, just as with anything else, a large part of your
system success is due to who you know. I am a lucky audio freak.

Back to cables. The Anti Cable SC is NOT the last word in cable making. It's
just better than almost anything else out there, regardless of cost. And that
ties neatly into what I was saying above.

I am going by my experience, and the heaps of other people's testimony. I can prove to anyone, any "insulated" cord, regardless of cost, will spit.

People owning Scintillas are big on ultra thin silver or copper ribbons. I am going to try one within the week. I found a source that gives me yards of .003" ribbon already coated with urethane, which is what I was going to do anyway.

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.

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.