Your favorite OCC speaker cable


I've gotten good sound with my Analysis Plus Crystal Solo interconnects and may go for their speaker wire. But I like to wait for something used to come along, and it could be a long wait.

In the meantime, if there's a speaker wire with OCC that you've liked, I'd be curious to know what's worked for you.
hilde45

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I have been partial to HT Pro 9+ or 11+ both of which are made from multiple strands of solid core OCC copper that is individually insulated in foamed PE then surrounded by various layers of (probably superfluous) damping material, PVC, and tech flex that makes them look big and manly (probably a design selection by the marketing department).
For whatever reason I like the HT sound better than stranded OCC offerings by folks such as Furutech and also better than the similar AZ cables I have owned such as their double barrel shotgun cables.  I like the depth, fullness, and power of the bass from the HT cables as well as the clarity and rich tone across the mid-upper frequencies.  I am currently running two pair of HT Pro 9+ (aggregate of 6 awg) to each speaker.
@hilde45 
The phrase "internal bi-wire" refers to having the four bi-wire conductors (HF/MF pos and neg, and LF pos and neg) encased in one cable compared to bi-wiring using two separate cables that each have a single positive and negative conductor, in which case you would need two of those cables to bi-wire a speaker with four binding posts.
Each HT Pro 9 series cable has four internal conductors, each with multiple, individually insulated wires.  The Pro 9 series also uses multiple wire gauges and a different aggregate gauge for two of the internal conductors compared to the other two.  The two smaller conductors are for the HF/MF posts and the larger conductors for the LF posts when the cable is used internally bi-wired.   The Pro-9 series cables can also have two of the four conductors connected together at both ends, with a single pair of connectors at each end.  That is how mine are configured and so I use two independent Pro-9+ cables to bi-wire my speakers rather than a single cable that is internally bi-wired.  The Pro-9 series cables are the same whether used as a single-wired cable or internally bi-wired with the only difference being the number of terminations at the speaker end.  You could purchase the cable you linked and re-terminate the speaker end with two connectors (instead of four) and they would work great for your speakers.
@teo_audio - Can you share what Belkin means when they advertise "hybrid-conductor technology"? What is hybrid? Are there a mixture of OCC and OFC wires, a mix of stranded and solid core wire, is the wire tinned or silver plated, is the negative wire a different material or different size, or is "hybrid" something else altogether. Also, can you share whether the PE insulation is foamed or not? I could not find answers to these questions in their product literature. Thanks.