Diy "recepies" for speaker wire anyone?

There's at least one good website with DIY info for cables, but I can't find the URL at the moment. My reply may generate a few arguments, but here are the basics. If you assume the speakers sound best connected directly to the amp, then you want to minimize resistance (R), series inductance (L), and parallel capacitance (C). Lowest R is from big wires, but if you try house wire the L will change (it goes up) with frequency (that's bad.) Lowest L is from wires right next to each other, but that gives highest C (bad.) Lowest C is from wires a few inches away from each other, but that gives highest L (also bad.) The trick is to find the best tradeoff. The ones I've tried are with lots of small wires close together. I've tried ribbon cable, twisted and untwisted, and braiding fine wires together. Haven't tried parallel runs of coax or copper strip yet, they're on the list. My costs are much lower than even cheap cables. I'm pleased with the performance. Do they rival expensive cables? I'd be happy to borrow good cables for a few months to compare.

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

enjoythemusic.com has some cable projects.

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.