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The fun of braiding....
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Posted on March 26, 1999 at 11:29:28 | ||
...your own speaker cables! DAMN it's hard on the fingers! But it's finally done and I put them into use last night, replacing the Nordost Flatlines (not the Super) I had been using. I didn't really do any critical listening as of yet but I didn't seem to be missing anything in terms immediately. More critical listening to come tonite... Some added info: the cables are constructed as such. I braided 3 twisted pairs together to form a length of 6 wires. I then took 3 sets of these braided wires and braided them again. This gives about 18 wires for the cable. What is the effective AWG of this length? I didn't go into the extra effort of braiding these 18 wire cables with 2 others to give 54 wires total per cable. What are the caveats of making the cable thicker with the extra braids? If the 54 wire cable combination will have a major effect on the inductance and capacitance of the wire, I guess I'll go back to braiding a few more weeks and perhaps in shorter length (about 5 feet instead of the 8 feet length I was constructing before). |