Bought a 700ft roll of MilSpec 12 gauge Teflon silver plated wire for about $70. off eBay last year.(for some reason this particular gauge MilSpec has become expensive!! off eBay. If you ever see a multi-hundred foot roll cheap, GRAB IT. 'cuz you may never see another, sure wish I had aquired two rolls!)
Have a single 20 amp unused outlet, (with it's own breaker) in the kitchen. I tried using it with a 14gauge extension cord (100ft) that ran around the long way to stereo. 50/50 Ok. plug ran hot at wall..
So I think Go BIG. I make a set of 10 wires: four pairs of A/C wires in two sets of star/quad with two ground between the two sets of star quad, all wrapped in teflon, UP over the ceiling so a shortcut 40 ft total to the stereo.
I put the stuff up,(with no ends, just wire) then waited to ask the owner of building if OK to use these. Got OK, then preceeded.
I doubled up two sets into a wattgate plug each, so one ground for two sets of A/C. (once I am pleased with it all, I may splurge for a better pair of A/C plugs there, and a 8300 cryoed outlet)
At stereo end one of each A/C pair for a powerline conditioner: Ps Audio P600, PS Audio PPP, and a Furman REF20i, with a fourth left over for 'someday' with just a duplex double box gang at end.
The Furman got a cryoed 8300 outlet, and the Ps Audio shared a 8300 split so each outlet half was a separate device, and a further extension out of that box to another duplex double outlet box on the other side of the equipment from the first one, for future use.
This all helped my system to sound better. Just like a dedicated line! lot of work in wrapping all the wiring in thick Teflon tape.
(I am retired and can waste plenty of time fiddling around. A Wanted the wires to be in a tight star quad with clean twist and no burbles along the course.)
I added special cut lengths at ends to identify which wire was which in bundles, best way to ID each wire so i did not fry myself and blow endless breakers checking them! no cut, 1/8" cut. 3/8" cut, and 5/8" cut in each star quad.
The receptical boxes at the stereo end also got filled with baggies of Quartz crystals. (a tweak rage going on over at AudioAsylum in tweaks)(along with another older tweak of wrapping the blades of the A/C plugs with a thin layer of white Teflon. wrap the blade with three turns around of flat tape. Then using fingernail push wrap down off area of blade that makes contact in receptical. I pushed the Teflon wrap down about halfway, and let the receptical push it back whatever rest of the way it wanted. This tweak offers cleaner sound, AND I measured the A/C usage and found it lowered A/C usage about 2% to 3% on average. So I did it to EVERY plug in the place) ((Please do not ask me HOW or what mechanism it manages to reduce power consumption, I don't KNOW!, all I can say is I measured it and it was less with the tweak))
So for the cost of the spool of wire (I think it was $70) and several spools of blue teflon tape and a few outlets. (and a lot of work)
PS any wiring over a ceiling has to be in a metal enclosure. those little strips used to hide ceiling lighting work fine. i got some free ones that I just reused.
The sound is more real. When I did all the conditioning, things got a little thinned out, but a lot clearer. Now the thinness is gone, but I kept the clarity. Really good PRAT and aliveness now too.
A lot of work but every little bit helps in the quest for cheap and cheerful audio!
