Home Depot Ext. Cord for Speaker Cable

I played around with several variations of this "Halloween" cable before settling on one that I'm still enjoying after more than a year. I use the stuff shotgunned -- all three conductors in the forward/+/red direction and another three in the reverse/-/black direction, terminated in serious spades at the amp end and Eichmann bananas at the speaker end. I've encased the cables in black Techflex so they doesn't scare the children. And I'm using two more identical pairs into the bottom (subwoofer) connections on my Gallo Ref 3s.

Works for me, and replaced some pretty pricy cables. One of my friends found that they sounded substantially better than the $1200 cables (which will be unnamed but starts with "V") he was using at the time. Another friend thought they sounded like hell in his system. So it's a system-dependent crapshoot, but what's to lose -- for 20 bucks you can make up 4 8-foot links and have some to spare, and see what you think.

BTW, the bananas on mine are so I can switch polarity easily (well, comparatively easily).

I tried the variation Undetow recommended, liked it better than the "original" two wire version, but not nearly as well as the separate ones I ended up with.

Steuspeed, have you heard them? When it costs less than 20 bucks to try them, why not? Paul Seydor in The Absolute Sound review found that they sounded every bit as good as the $400-500 cables he was testing at the time, and he was using a simple two-wire version.