Looking for really fine cables at really low price

+1 for Signal Cables!!!!!!!!!!!!

signature8, you twist two of the same type of wire, with or without a core, then connect one wire between pin 2 (positive) at both ends, connect the other wire to pin 3 (negative) at both ends, place a shield around those two wires connected to Pin 1 (ground) only at the source end and then countersprial a ground wire (i.e., in the opposite direction to the two twisted wires inside of the shield) outside of the shield and connect that ground wire to pin 1 at both ends.  You need three total wires per cable run, plus the shield and whatever other materials you use to construct the cable.

Mitch: Thank you so much. I understand now.

I can jump in with my two cents on the Supra 3.4 ply speaker wires. I got mine from Lars. Nice guy. He is not the only source in the US. You can get them cheaper at Madisound, which is where I’m going to place my next order when I figure out my length requirement.

I did not like the combi connectors that I chose because I wanted to be able to switch between spade and banana plugs for two different sets of speakers. The connector ends would manage to loosen up on a weekly basis no matter how tight I tried to get them. So I just went bare wire.

A unique aspect of their structure is the rectangular shape of the weave. This makes it a little trickier to trim off the casing without also nicking/cutting some of the wire. And as thick as this wire is for inserting into stock vintage speaker terminals, it is doable with some imagination ... that is, unless the openings are big enough, which my current set of speakers are.

For the money, you can’t go wrong. But I suggest going bare ends if at all possible.

Wanted to order some tin plated copper shielding for Deulund 16 gaguge wire to make balanced IC's. Would 1/8" shielding work for two wires or a 1/4" required. Anyone has any experience with this? Thanks.

Before I start cooking thanksgiving dinner I wanted to update this thread about using WE16gauge stranded wire as power supply to ground and b+ in my WE91a 300b amp. It has a warmth and musical tone that draws me into the music. Slightly diffuse which makes sense since it is stranded wire. That diffuse quality adds a depth and richness that is very pleasing but also a bit muddy in my system. There is a euphonic quality that also bothers me a bit. Meaning - a basic sameness to the overall sound tamber that now is present on every recording. A slight grayish color present especially in the lower Mids. 

I pulled the WE16g wire ten days ago and replaced it with 14guage solid core pure silver wire. The silver wire of course makes the sound less diffuse since it is solid core and not stranded. The sound of this wire keeps changing daily so it’s too soon to render any conclusion. Today after ten days it sounds warm but not euphonic. That grayish overall tonal color of the WE wire is gone. I like the solidity of the images. I like the tonality and additional clarity. Warm and clean and musical on it’s good days and on the bad days slightly thin and overly bright. I hate breaking in wire.

what I find about WE16guage stranded wire of course only pertains to my system which with 300b tubes and Audio Note speakers tends towards the warm and textured side already. This wire is adding to the sound I already have so it would make sense that I would find the WE wire additive. We’ll see in a few more days how I ultimately find the silver wire to sound.

Signature8 when I made shielded ICs with WE Stranded 16g wire I remember ordering 1/2inch shield. It was very hard threading two conductors through the shield so you need plenty of room.

Steakster I also prefer stranded speaker wire over solid core. Currently happiest with Audio Note Lexus lintz after trying many.

Just put back in the only other pair of speaker cables I have that display the same vintage (real sounding) tone that I get from the WE wire and they consist of multiple, 26awg 6N copper wires individually insulated in cotton in a specific geometry on top (HF and MF) and quad connected 16 awg 4N copper in cotton to the LF so the aggregate is 16 awg on top and 13 awg on the bottom.  Being solid core and untinned, they do sound different from the stranded tinned WE wire I have been using (dual 10awg pairs to each speaker) but they have pretty much the same tone and the differences are subtle...maybe a little less warmth and slightly more incisiveness but not quite the fullness provided by the 10 awg WE wires although not lean in any respect.  Trade-offs but very similar tone.  WE wires are back on the Cable Cooker for a tune-up.

Listening today to my Duelund 16guage interconnects terminated with Canare f10 RCA plugs. Without shielding. Very nice natural sound. Very pleasing. They have three weeks of burn in time in the back room. Much nicer than the WE16g wire. Warm with lots of natural detail. Very nice, keepers for sure.

Agreed Jet. I live it as IC cable for sure. Not yet tried it as speaker cable. 

Once I've found ICs or speaker wire I like I tend to forget about it. Most of my rig is solid core AQ stuff, balanced wherever possible...including some "Type 8" speaker wire that supposedly uses Real Good copper and sounds fabulous…or at least I THINK it does…in any case there is zero hum anywhere even with my tube amp, and I like that.