HOW TO DIY A $4K SPEAKER CABLE !! 

PT Barnum is looking at this cable and shaking his head. Thanks for showing me this, the thinness of the cable inside is eye opening.😮

I love Audio Autopsy. Great series.

Early Sablon Audio cables were using Oyaide 102ssc hook up wire 16awg (available in japanese market only). Transparent Audio orders raw cables from one factory in US, where 1m of Reference XL digital costs around 30usd (MOQ 1000ft). Entreq from Sweden in "Challenger" power cord used 5x1.5mm2 control cable from SAB and Muckethaupt&Nusselt manufacturers. There are tons of examples like this.

You got some Grande huevos! Revealing like the masked musician! Thanks!

The unique selling point is, when you listen through this cable, you can actually hear the sandy beach and the sea

I made similar speaker cables but used steel shot as a damper and big fat vacuum hoses. They are heavy snakes I tell you. Fun project!

Love it! People into hifi need to watch eye-opening videos like this.

Nice break down! I want to know how you make those awesome flat power cables you make!

I use LAN cables, can be configured from single pair to multiple braided. If it works at gigabit ranges , it should work in kHz ranges too

Cool! Thanks for showing! Appreciate you helping educate us. Would like to see how to do foils!

I don’t like sand used in my cables. Makes the sound too grainy 😏😉

Love know how you got that price I brought this very cable years ago and it cost with shipping to the UK £850 pounds for two 2meter length or £212.50 per meter

Audioquest used 8 conductors in the Well speaker cable. Sold for 18,000. I don't know if there different gauges like there new sota Dragons which have 2 silvers per pos and 4 silvers per neg side. Not that I can afford such items but I'd image folks who can haven't any complaints!

All that and no kiss or lube! The vinyl wrap doesn't reach around for the Sonic Happy Ending! Wow!

I have yet to make a jig to encase my silver/PTFE conductors in so that they align centrally over say a 2m/6ft pipe/mould casing. Thanks for vid.

Mikey, Thanks for the cable lesson. Would love to see you compare some Speaker cables or I/Cs from GR Research, Kimber, Sain and Downsize Audio to get your take.

Nice eye -opening video! 👀 Thanks

Hi there, thanx for the eye opener!! one question: what is the benefit of using sand? thanks in advance

The sand makes it sound gritty.

SpaceX rockets have very similar cables connected to the launch pad.

Hey, if you can DIY and have it sound the same or better, more power to you. You can also say this about anything - builders, electricians, plumbers and roofers also do things you can DIY.

Great stuff, thank you.

Buy Kimber cable if you are going to splash out.

Brass connectors 30% conductive, that's where the loss occurs. Thus f the connectors, extend the board wire with a short silver wire out then solder connect speaker wires. It'll match or beat whatever exotic speaker wires in thousands. IACS conductivity standard rules.

Materials and money for the guy hired to do it, still makes it come to around 1000 USD to make this nowadays. Plus you then need a machine that can do many of these things so it all ends up looking the same and saving a lot of time. And that machine would probably cost at least 100k USD. Then there is the building/rent/business expenses plus a full staff doing the rest. So no I don´t think that it is expensive. I agree with Mickey, that is also what I would do. Plus solidcore that thick usually won´t sound that good, many times it has blind spots in the sound, meaning that you need a lot of smaller ones coming together to give a more 3d type of sound, instead of a locked cool HiFi mode of sound. I would make it 0.2mm times 50-100 per plus and minus, that would make it a lot more natural and complete in imagining. I am really surprised that they did not turn the silver tubes clockwise. When you do that, it usually makes the sound jump and lack focus, together with leaking energy, so you really need a gigantic mass of metal to keep the signal going, without noticing the loss of energy.

These Bare (No wire terminations Available) all individually Custom Hand made "Silver" Audiophile cables appeared sometime around 2003 & priced at an affordable $45/Meter.....Customers claimed these affordable "Giant Killer" speaker Cables sounded as Good or Better than > $500/Meter competitor Cables !!

Florescent lighting, cigarette smoke, a McMaster Carr and Grainger catalog is all you need for smoke and mirror Hi-fi. The tote is so cheesy.

I bought a 50 feet spool of Monsters Cables Speakers Wires for 40 bucks that sound really amazing both in my 2 channel _Reference Rig_ (Elac and Sony. Denon CD) and in my car (Alpine Cassette deck and Pioneer speakers). You should hear these wires: really thick bass and squeaky highs

Im running 10g ofc. Just quality beginner stuff. Great to see the guts off stuff!

you can use the case for a snare drum.

That whole thing is cheesy IMHO. The silver is nice but its a tiny AWG. Is the sand supposed to give it some benefit?

" its like hold a .............something or another "

So the sand is to stop vibration along cable ?great break down👌

Bogdan tungsten interconnect sound rather special.

Great autopsy vid, Mikey!

Man that construction is rank. But hey the audiophile is a gullible breed and this proves it. Do the same with kimber or similar quality for comparison.

Bogdan Petrescu - according to 6Moons - makes speakers and tube amps in a small town in Ohio. The description of the review units was 'ultra high end' and everything appears to be made to order. Bogdan Audio no longer sells cables but we can assume that he sees his products in the Nordost stratosphere vs Mogami. Mikey is restating a lot of what Danny Ritchie said a couple years back - I guess it comes down to whether a dealer will let you try their cables in your own rig. Danny's power cable, fwiw, was deemed unusable by ASR but that's a can of worms for another day.

I guess Its the same with all Hi Fi equipment, a good demonstrable example being that of solid state Amplifiers, most parts that go into an amplifier are relatively inexpensive but what you are paying for is the thought in someone's head i.e. the design, build or manufacture (I differentiate hand made as build), marketing, packaging and shipping. Although the principles are simple, most people cannot design an amplifier, so you pay for the privilege of someone putting those mostly inexpensive components safely and coherently in a box of vastly varying quality, in order to make it more than the sum of its parts. Very often that cost is exponentially more than the cost of the materials....often that small word "marketing" hides all the genius and the evil....and so it goes.... our hobby/ way of life is a never ending journey of pain, inter-spaced with precious fleeting moments of insight and ecstasy.

Interesting, 18 guage a bit on the cheap, but easier to work with side. I made my own kick ass power cord to higher standards than that! It is tedious to do though.

WOW

Look out for the bogdan audio eximus cables. Please contact me!

High end ? Just zilver wire in a nice Beckham cleaner hose welll all of us can make that 😂 Im realy happy with my diy gr research/ kimber cabel fild with 100% cotton rope 12tc strand occ ofc copper

I’ve seen where Bogdan also made cables which were 99.99% pure tungsten (not silver). Maybe this one is tungsten (silver-grey color)?

What’s scrap silver going for these days? 😮

What wire guage is in it? Looks too thin for speakers. I imagined they also have shielding that's why they're fat and expensive.

18awg is a tad too little of a gauge.

didn't bogdan use tungsten in their cables?

Wow, this is bad. Could've at least separated the wire to reduce EMI. I'm feeling better and better about my cable design every day.

Balanced fat...the cornerstone of any nutritious hifi experience.

what's your take on Inakustik German cables?

You may have just found me a business.

Am I the only one thinking this cable was full of stranded wires. If I bought this and saw what's inside, someone would be on their way out.

I’m 50 so stuff 20 years old doesn’t seem old to me.

where's the comparison to new cables? lol

Snake oil at its finest!

18awg is not useful for speaker cable's. Very limited current

Amazing, How we been getting ripped off in this hobby!!

I use to have the MIT Shogun speaker cables that were the size of a garden hose and they were very stiff, also had big blocks at one end

I wonder where the bag was made? I’m such a dick bag 😂

Wow, what a scammer. And to say it is an 18ga silver cable itself is still merely an assumption. Could be solder wire who knows.

That's all it is? Fine silver wire is like 5 bucks a foot, some PTFE tubing, a sleeved vinyl tube, a bit of sand and some heat shrink and hardware and you've got a 4 thousand dollar wire? Sure there's overhead when a company makes it but I could easily build this cable myself and I'm free slave labor like a mini-China. Oh and I think the silver wire is pretty soft so I can see why it's protected by a harder tube and sand to keep it from kinking. It comes in different hardness/temper... soft or extra soft is supposed to sound the best.

Wow. 🤦‍♂️