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...experimenting with some new speaker wire...
"I can't compete with the dead" (Buck W. 2010)
"It would take me forever. I don't think I have forever" (Byrd 2015)
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One can see the amps are low enough that small gauge wire is enough for any wattage a speaker would see in a home setting.
Try some magnet wire. Might surprise you. I'm of the frame of mind that the insulation is important.
Isn't magnet wire just bare wire with a varnish type coating?
Many are a polyurethane but I wouldn't quite call them varnish.
Years ago there was a fad going around using solid core door bell wire as speaker cables. They are skinny like your picture. Worked pretty good....let us know how yours sound.....
It still sounds the same...which is very good (considering the system). The PS and OTs are running hotter though. A little less hot than the max one would allow them to get.
"I can't compete with the dead" (Buck W. 2010)
"It would take me forever. I don't think I have forever" (Byrd 2015)
I've spent several hours with these thread cables playing music I listen to everyday. I hear no difference....positive or negative. I'm going to leave them on.
I'll give a quad hand to a friend for his system. He always like to play with his setup.
It will be interesting to hear what visitors, who know this system well, have to say.
"I can't compete with the dead" (Buck W. 2010)
"It would take me forever. I don't think I have forever" (Byrd 2015)
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Hi, Ever since the article came out in Stereophile about the solid core speaker wires I made some up and never looked back.
I have a moderate to small room for my listening so I made to identical 10 foot lengths. I went to the Radio Shack and bought red and black to never make a mistake with polarity. I twist the wires around each other so theres less chance of any radio frequencies invading the sound. Every inch or so the black wraps around the red and vise versa. Thats the fun part of making them.
To me less is best so with these cables I have eliminated any banana jacks to my speaker terminals and also from the amp or receiver.
My old chemistry teacher said (gentleman,keep those connections clean ,bright and tight). The solid core wire does this perfectly. You can clean it perfectly by sanding any oxides with a small piece of sandpaper. It makes it shiny, clean. With screw terminals like on my Dyna amp I get the tight connection without any more objects in the way, bananas say.
Because of my new cat I hooked up some Radio Shack Minimus 7's those little black metal speakers. You might think the spring connectors are cheap but they dig into the wire a little making even a better connection than surface area bananas. The Minimus 7's might not be your audiophiles choice but I have these sounding so good my better speakers might not make the varsity team. They sound great!...Mark Korda
I've done that. I wish I could remember what I did with those cables. Twisting them reminded me of crafts classes where we made those braided things.
And you are right about the guillotine-style speaker connectors. I think even Ray Kimber stated what you said about them making solid contact. My Paradigm Titans have them.
When we were all trying to use 12 gauge electrical wire.
You had to strip in out of the casing and twist it. the only "kink" was when use 12 gauge electrical wire it's like bending pipe. And few amps could accommodate that wire connection.
No problems here!
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