24 Strand DIY Speaker Cable
$13.75 – $687.50
Please be sure to purchase the DIY Audiophile Speaker Kit if you need connectors. Also note that adding the rope through the center will take up a little more than 20% of the length. The cable is sold by the foot for $13.50 (per foot) and includes 1/2″ cotton rope which needs to feed through the center of the cable. The rope adds 25 cents a foot. So, $13.75 total per foot.
Please be sure to purchase the DIY Audiophile Speaker Kit if you need connectors. Also note that adding the rope through the center will take up a little more than 20% of the length.
*Wire is sold by the foot for $13.50 (per foot) and includes the 1/2" cotton rope to feed through the center. The rope adds 25 cents a foot. So, $13.75 total per foot. This cable uses 24 separate, variable gauge, conductors in a counter rotating braid. The wire is high purity oxygen free Copper in polyethylene. Each leg of 12 wires makes an 8 gauge cable. See a great picture by picture documentation of the build in our forum at the Audio Circle.
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Additional information
| Weight | 5 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 13 × 13 × 4 in |
| Length | 1ft, 2ft, 3ft, 4ft, 5ft, 6ft, 7ft, 8ft, 9ft, 10ft, 11ft, 12ft, 13ft, 14ft, 15ft, 16ft, 17ft, 18ft, 19ft, 20ft, 21ft, 22ft, 23ft, 24ft, 25ft, 26ft, 27ft, 28ft, 29ft, 30ft, 31ft, 32ft, 33ft, 34ft, 35ft, 36ft, 37ft, 38ft, 39ft, 40ft, 41ft, 42ft, 43ft, 44ft, 45ft, 46ft, 47ft, 48ft, 49ft, 50ft |
Nicholas Rumenos (verified owner) –
Absolutely love these cables!!! My initial listening impressions was the noticeable difference in the upper octaves, a lot of high frequency was more apparent than my old cables giving a higher sense of resolution, going from my Kimber Kable carbon cables, I ordered mine fully assembled from GR Research and the build quality is fantastic as well as the customer service, very satisfied, highly recommended!!!
VP (verified owner) –
Fantastic cables. Great buyers experience.
Charlie Hatch (verified owner) –
What amazing cables! It’s hard to keep from sounding like an audio reviewer cliché. I started down the GR cable path with the IC8 RCA interconnects, and you can read my review of those cables there. The ICs were absolutely stunning, so I decided to give the 24 Strand speaker cables a try. I had GR build them. These cables are very similar in design to the ICs, but fatter and with more conductors. Same geometry, which I think is magic. Same insulation (dielectric), same copper, same everything, near as I can tell.
My previous speaker cables cost in the $6k range, and I used to think they were pretty good. After all, they were expensive, right? They had to be good. But after my GR IC experience, also replacing expensive IC cables, I couldn’t resist trying the GR speaker cables. They cost only a tenth of what I was using before. A tenth.
Well, wow. They definitely did make an improvement, and the combination of the IC cables and speaker cables made a vast improvement. Yes, imaging precision, soundstage depth, strong bass, crystal clear highs, astounding low-level detail, all that stuff was way better than what I had before.
I should mention at this point that I have a very resolving system that I’ve put together over the years, and I have paid careful attention to speaker position (yes, well away from walls) and listening position, and I’ve applied a fair amount of room treatment. It is not a dedicated, built-from-scratch listening room; it’s a living room, but with friendly dimensions and some good treatment.
How to describe the sound? Yes, an audiophile word like “holographic” comes to mind. But what does that mean? I used to think my pre-GR cable system sounded holographic. But now I know it wasn’t really. Before writing this, I thought a lot about how to describe these cables, and here’s what I came up with. Imagine you are looking at a beautifully rendered painting by a Dutch Master, like, say, Vermeer. Exquisite detail, wonderful perspective and depth, fascinating and beautiful to just look at. You think you’ve got a great painting. How could anything be better than that? Now imagine that all of a sudden, you are standing there in reality. That’s what these cables do. You are THERE.
I listen to a lot of solo piano and orchestral classical music, and now it really seems like I’m physically present with the instruments. Complex and dense orchestra passages (like you’ll find in some of Richard Strauss’s music) are completely defined in every layered detail. Unbelievable. I hear all sorts of things I never heard before. And if I want to listen to rock, jazz, blues, or percussion, the system has all the bass and slam one could ask for. (My amps do help here.) But above all, I’m there with the instruments.
For those who might wonder how much of the improvement is IC and how much speaker cable, I would say, roughly, 75% of the improvement came from the ICs, which is what you’d expect: source components usually benefit the most from good cables, and that low-level signal is more sensitive to noise and distortion. The other 25% came from the speaker cables.
So, if you’re sitting on the fence, wondering if you should try these cables, DO. You can’t beat the price; the bang-to-buck ratio is higher than anything I’ve experienced. Danny has hit on an incredibly good design.