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Stripping Belkin PureAV bulk PCOCC speaker cable

Posted by machani (A) on March 28, 2007 at 03:16:06

In Reply to: Unruly new speaker cable tamed by simple tweak posted by Bixby on March 26, 2007 at 16:24:45:

Bixby,

A crude, but effective, approach to stripping the PVC jacket of the Belkin PureAV bulk speaker cable is to use a sharp pair of scissors. The process is fairly easy since the cable is twin axial, not twisted pair (i.e., the red and black PE jacketed wires run parrallel).

Position the cable such that it points toward the "jaws" of the scissors. Cut the gray PVC jacket, such that the jaws of the scissors cut between the red and black PE jacketed speaker wires. Be careful not to cut the speaker wires.

Once you have cut through about 2" of the gray PVC jacket, you will find that the two halves can be pulled apart quite easily, exposing the red and black jacketed speaker wires.

Note that each speaker wire has several strands of pcocc copper of various AWG. I guess this is what Belkin calls "hybrid" cable geometry. The largest strand (some 21AWG or so) is individually insulated with its own PVC jacket. You will need to strip the PE jacket off this strand before you terminate the cable.

FYI, I'm trying out the Belkin PureAv bulk pcocc cable right now and it seems to be doing an excellent job of articulating the midrange and midbass - easily beating my DH-Labs Q10 in this area. I'll write another post on this topic.

Cheers,
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C N Machani

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