The "most foolish" loudspeaker tweak/upgrade ... is

hifijones
And what a coinkydink that a member who’s profiteered more from expectation bias than any other A’gon member would chime in with a bIt of sarcasm.

Whoa! What! Wow, I was not expecting that!

hifijones
Well....if the coins just sit on the tops of your speakers then you’ve never spent them, huh? Saved maybe but not spent.

As for your twisted logic allow me to straighten you out. Your coins are sitting on the top of the speakers so you aren’t saving them. You already spent them. You spent them on the coins on the speakers tweak. Now if you remove the coins from the speakers then you're saving them and are free to spend them on something else.

Gee, thanks for the warning. But if it's coins it not really free, is it?

If you were cheap enough to settle for the least expensive of the 4 Schweikert models for which he now provides the ULTRA internal wire upgrade, you would undoubtedly be quite pleased to know that the price for the upgrade is NOT $39K, but far less, something along the lines of only $15K.

Barnum never said it. He was a showman not a ripoff. Don't you like the circus?

The real problem with the whole thing is that High Technology especially when linked to NASA or DoD or DARPA is that high technology is as high technology does when it comes to sound quality. Audiophiles are the final arbiters of what actually works, not some secrecy shrouded burocracy. The marketing ploy of Space Age Technology or some sort of trickle down ultra technology is as old as the hills. Now if Schweikert had said anything about 7 nines copper, cryogenics or directionality of wire or even high Frequency high permeability alloys then I would put a little more credibility in his speaker wire mod. If memory serves Schweikert used to use Analysis Plus wiring in his speakers which actually seems like good move. 

From our friend Wikipedia,

"Twisted pair cabling is a type of wiring in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of canceling out electromagnetic interference (EMI) from external sources; for instance, electromagnetic radiation from unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cables, and crosstalk between neighboring pairs. It was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.[1]"

My note: twisted pair cancels RFI/EMI, but not magnetic fields. Magnetism is a horse of a different color. Shielding, absorbing, rejecting, cancelling magnetic fields calls for something a little more uh, stringent.

One trusts Cardas didn't actually say magnetic fields.

Whoa! Hey, that guy’s voice is enough to creep any newbie half out of his wits. Part Vincent Price, part Bela Lugosi. And what’s up with all these low post trolls all of a sudden? Was there a cattle call?

Twist as in twisted pair would be good for noise rejection and it wouldn’t surprise me if the rate of twist per inch is critical. I.e., the twist rate is not arbitrary and depends on the wire diameter among other things. Don’t get yer panties in a twist. But are the wires marked for directionality? Furthermore, it would be nice if SOMEONE took into account the influence of the rather massive magnetic field produced by the magnets on the internal wiring.