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More DIY silver foil speaker cables

Posted by Dave Garretson (A) on January 18, 2015 at 09:27:14

I finished up terminating and jacketing the DIY silver foil speaker cables previously posted to the URL below. The "spade" termination is a compression fit of 8 awg .999 silver round wire against four stacked and curled 1/4" wide .999 silver foil conductors. The copper collet is cannibalized from a solid copper spade. The Teflon wrapped bundle of conductors is snaked through a silk jacket for damping and a nice finished look.

This was a straight-forward project requiring only a bench grinder to put a flat on the round wire for a perfect fit into the copper collet.

The copper spades and silk jacket are from Chinese seller vt4c. He sells a lots nice things.

These cables are the endpoint for me.

Budget for four 7' cables:

Rio Grande:

120' .999 silver foil(25.2 oz.): $581.00
2' 8awg .999 round silver wire: $49.00

vt4c:

4 pair SPC-YA75C spades: $40
30' SILK-755: $96

Total: $766

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