24 Strand DIY Speaker Cable
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.
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.
Lars (verified owner) –
Just got these cables, and I have not ever had super expensive cables, but since these came at a very low price and with a reputation of sounding like the most expensive cable I would never buy for those prices I feel confident I have made the correct choice. These are amazing. They did not change the sound in any way, but opened the soundstage. It sounds like every note of a guitar solo is very easy to hear, and everything is just super clear. Its almost like there is air between all instruments if that makes sense?! I have tried them on a couple of speakers and they seem to inherent the qualities every time. So now I have become a firm believer that cables make a difference, and you do not have to spend tons of cash while these are around.
Boris (verified owner) –
This is my second pair of these speaker cables. I’ve assembled them myself, and got my time down from four hours to three hours. They are replacing some department store by-the-foot audio wires. I’m not even close to completing burn in, but I wanted to say how pleased I already am with them. Immediate difference was the left and right ends of my soundstage finally took a step beyond my speakers. Things actually sound like they’re coming from the left or right side, instead of sounding like they are coming from the left or right speaker. It brought forward vocals when they would always seem covered up by everything else. In general it cleaned up dynamics, so busy songs didn’t sound so messy. Super pleased listening with these (and they look great). Thank you!