Diy "recepies" for speaker wire anyone?

Try www.audioasylum.com and then the cable forum. Also use search feature to find threads on DIY cable. All these people do is discuss cable, a lot of it is DIY. Jeff

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Ordinary 10 Pair (20) wire Indoor Telephone Cable makes excellent speaker wire. Colour coding waries from different manufacturers. One common type has a white wire paired with a coloured one. Connect all the whites together and use as one lead, and all the coloured ones together for the other lead. It presents both Low R and Low L. It is cheap, sometimes free if you know somebody who works for a telephone company. It works wery well, try it.

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If you use good quality wire.Copper conductors teflon dialectric with a good copper shield.This is the basis for a good cable.They will sound as good as some of the very expensive cables.Cost has no bearing.There are some 1k cables out there that sound like crap compared to other 1k cables.you just have to sort through the Hype.The people doing the big volume adds are typically giving you less for your money.