I myself do the same with my search for a high quality speaker wire, but at a reasonable price. I start with a one foot pair of the top of the line MG Audio Design's speaker wires. Although they have listed a 6 foot pair of them for $4800, they will sell the public a one foot pair for, again, only $900. These are the very sam spesker wires that Arnie Nudell and Paul McGowen use for their own mono amplifiers. Anyway, I attach them to my speakers. Between the MG Audio Design wires and my amplifier I use 18 gage Jenna Lab's own hook up wires. They go for $6 a foot. I began with one Jenna Lab hook up wire attached to each of the MG Audio Design speaker wires. Through experimentation, I now am using 3 of the 18 gage Jenna Lab's 18 gage hook up wires to each MG Audio esign's wires. That is 12 Jenna Lab'shook up wires total. I myself needed long runs of speaker wires as my audio gear sits right next to my chair to my right. Anyway, I am using 18 foot lengts of the jenna Lab's wires for my left speaker-that's 6 individual 18 foot length's of them. for my right speker I am using 6, 10 foot length's of them. The total cost comes to $1915 for the equilivant of a 14.5 foot pair of speaker wires. The end result is basically the equilivant of a 14.5 pair of the top of the line MG Audio Drsign speaker wires. I really works. I discovered this originally when I had a one foot pair of Shunyata's own top of the line speaker wires and some runs of the Jenna Lab's 18 gage hook up wires. I could easily demonstrate this speaker wire combination to anyone interested. I believe that all I would need to do is to play either my Day/Sequerrs FM Studio Tuner or one of my McIntosh MR74 FM tuners to demonstrate my wire solution. That's all I would need. Of course with my Oppo 105 or Thorens TD125-Rabco combo it would even be more apparent. Anyway, anyway interested has the information for free.