Anti-Cables on their way/have arrived

[Ajani]

The Difference
The Anti-Cable wire is made of one solid piece of highly annealed, super long drawn, Continuously Cast Oxygen Free Copper. They might look skinny, but that is because the insulation (dielectric
material) is a very thin red coating instead of the typical thick plastic insulation. They are actually a heavy 12 gauge wire, even thought they look much smaller.

Keep in mind that AntiCable is made part-time by a husband and wife team... working with the actual cable to measure, cut and terminate is relatively labour intensive (as magnet wire is more tricky to deal with than regular cables)... However, I see nothing to suggest that Paul and Judy Speltz create the raw wire (just that they cut and terminate it), so I assume they have a distributor supply them with very high quality (possibly custom) magnet wire. So it's likely better magnet wire than what you could purchase in bulk at a hardware, but using the cheap hardware wire should give some of the benefits...

The truth is in the hearing and what I paid for two pair of AntiCables to bi-wire is less than I pay for a dinner for two with wine. I will always have the cables but I will piss away the wine and the dinner will soon come to pass. As Auntie Mame says life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving. I do not mean that in todays economical tragedies but let us not always find the cheapest way to go.

For the price of AntiCables I still regard them as an easy recommendation. But for DIYers who either must do something themselves or really need to feel that they've saved a buck, then magnet wire should be OK.