Are there hybrid cables - solid and stranded?

Kimber Kable combines many different gauges of wire combined into one conductor than they will take four or eight of those and braid them together.

There were proponents of Solid Core cables long before Tara Labs. I remember back in the late 80's, some of the british mags were big proponents of solid core designs.

check out the LFD Hybrid Speaker Cable
Gene Rubin Audio has them

I have just hooked up my fourth set of speaker cables between Maggie 1.7s and Parasound Halo amps. Kimber 8TC was replaced by Tellurium Q Black cables from England. I moved things and needed longer cables, so I stuck in some huge old Radio Shack bradded cables. They were a disappointment. Recently I tried RiverCables. I think they are the best of the lot, and cost quite a bit less. They are 7 gage, flat, sort of, and sound like nothing! Forget design and go with process. You can return these if you don't like them, but I was delighted!

Thank you for all the posts! Really appreciate them.

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