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In Reply to: RE: Is less more better more or less? posted by AudioSoul on August 20, 2016 at 19:41:41
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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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