Tired of Expensive Speaker Cable. Alternatives?


I'm once again changing speakers, so I'll need two sets to shotgun biwire. I'm tired of seeing the prices asked, and the recommendations made, for multi-thousand dollar products.

I don't know if I'm interested in going the Home Depot extension cord route either, though.

What about low-moderate priced wire that sounds good without the high price tag? Something full, big sounding, extended without being bright, with a good soundstage?
saxo
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.