Inexpensive speaker cables: any experience?

I would steer clear of the eBay jobs.

I have been looking at the braided Kimber, as the inductance is low.

But I usually use the Magomi 12 or 13 ga stuff which is 4 wire (2 pair) and just put on the ends. I ordered 40 or maybe 50 feet of it, as well as mic cable and Nuetrik RCAs. So all that gear is allegedly now in the mail.

A speaker cable as DIY is pretty easy of one is on a budget and they sound just dandy to a iron-fist and lead-ear.

Want to bet? There are easy experiments to test my assertion.

Some links would be useful to post.

Cables depend on system matching of course, but cheapish off the reel cables worth looking at would be Jupiter or Dueland, WE copies? Not tried yet but some good reports. Popular with tube supporters.

Or it is all B$, and the system matching is just a “tour de farce.“

Having the gear be neutral would mean that spicing them to be cold or hot, would not be required.

Brother has a dog named cooper?...

Like ol yeller, they are copper coloured?

@rooze that last link you posted talks about the main measurable parameters having the most pronounced effect.

Conclusion #1 – A cable’s electrical properties can be measured. In doing so we find there are a number of significant differences between different cables designed to do the same job. These measurable differences in the electrical properties of cables can be correlated directly to the differences we hear in the sonic profiles of cables. [more later]

Therefore measurable differences in the electrical properties of audio cables can and do affect how the music sounds and in a predictable way.

We go right from conclusion #1, to finding that most “magical cables” do not come with specifications on their main electrical parameters.

They are mostly sold as “Just listen to them”.

If we were to know that some specific capacitance and inductance helps a specific system, then it gets easier to move from that cable to a “slightly” different sound, in predicable ways.

Currently it is more like a Pentecostal revival, where one reaches into a bag of snakes, and prays like hell that the outcome is not going to go too badly.
(Pulling out the snake shaped cable that hopefully tames their system… and if it is directional, then they have hopefully grabbed it near the arrow behind the head.)

If we knew the basic specs, then things like skin effect and dielectric biasing can be considered when we know that cable A and cable B are largely similar.

These CHeLA cables are not cheap, and they remind me of a Kimber 4TC or 8TC. And they have low inductance.

https://www.vhaudio.com/speakercables.html

Has anyone used these in a DIY setup?
Maybe I’ll order them or just try the Kimber 8TC…

Historically I usually have been more prone to using monoblocks so as to keep the cables short in length.