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RE: Solid copper VS Stranded for Speaker wire

Posted by Dawnrazor (A) on December 6, 2011 at 22:12:34

In Reply to: RE: Solid copper VS Stranded for Speaker wire posted by alanj.martin@verizon.net on December 6, 2011 at 18:03:10:

Yikes. My humblest apologies. I didn't know you would try to FIGURE OUT why magwire sounds so good! It IS counter-intuitive, but it works and there are many inmates that use it and once you do it is hard to let go. There is a cleanliness in the sound that other wire doesnt quite capture.

I am not sure stranded wire is less resistant, and actually I think the same gauge should have the same resistance regardless of its construction.

My 2 cents is that the strand jumping is not a good thing and not having to do that can make a difference in the sound. Another thing is that the insulation on magwire is really thin and usually good so that helps a bunch.

Thin gauge is also a win in terms of smearing, and IMHO current is overrated. On maggies one would think that some high resistance wire like 28g would mess with damping factor and muck up the bass. It is not the case, bass articulation increases and this flys in the face of 2 accepted audiophile notions...namely that damping factor is important and in indicator of bass control, and that maggies need current. My listening and others challenges these notions and I am comfortable saying that they are just not true. Also that the idea about thick gauge wire smearing the bass does appear to be true in my system.

Oh and ask yourself what gauge you think the voice coil is in your speakers. How does all the current in a fat 12g wire make it through that?

Another thing is that magwire is designed for certain applications like transformers and perhaps those characteristics are well suited to audio applications.

And do keep in mind that there are a bunch of factors in cables. Strand v. solidcore is just one of many things....

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