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In Reply to: RE: Thicker bass and richer mids...solid core or standed ICs? posted by stehno on April 07, 2015 at 23:31:25
Hi and excuse me for a question
You say " I would guess that if you had 1 pair of well-engineered and constructed cable type that uses superior parts and wiring that was stranded and another identical pair that was solid core, you probably wouldn't even hear any difference " for stranded you mean stranded litz ? because i read something about interstrand distortion or similar.
I wonder if normal stranded wires (no litz) could be all affected by this type of distortion.
In that case only cables made out of litz or solid core wires should be chosen i guess.
Thanks a lot.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 04/11/15 04/11/15Follow Ups:
Well, my Audio Tekne speaker cables are a Litz wire, so by default I think of Litz when I think of stranded. I've not heard of inter-strand distortion but I've heard plenty about "time smear" which for 10 years was a big buzz word but that concept seems to have faded. Perhaps inter-strand distortion is the new name for "time smear".
I really only know about cables from an end-user performance-oriented perspective. In my experience, cables of any type generally sound more alike than different. But every so often, one comes along that is clearly more musical than others I've tried. As well as once in a blue moon, one is clearly more inferior than the others.
IMO, some-to-many new cable discoveries and terminologies come and go so I try not to pay much attention to them.
Even something so silly as a cable's girth. 10 years ago, if your cables weren't 3 times the girth of your garden hose, you weren't an "audiophile". That was such nonsense. In fact since 2005 I've been using Audio Tekne speaker cables whose girth is smaller than a No. 2 Pencil. It was a tad more musical than any of the other cables I'd used prior to, but its performance really came into its own when when I had them double-cryo'ed via the popular vapor method and they really started to sing when I had them cryo'ed in 2013 via the full-immersion method.
My tiny Audio Tekne's, cryo'ed via what I consider the superior full immersion method, remain the most musical speaker cables I've yet experienced and I've owned or auditioned speaker cables retailing for upwards of $8500 a pair.
The added benefit of the Audio Teknes is that they confound those who still consider huge cables as a minimum qualification for superior sound.
The Teknes are copper and my IC's are silver. I would love to audition a superior silver speaker cable cryo'ed via full immersion as I suspect such a cable could be even more detailed and musical. Just as my humble BPT silver IC's retailing for $300 have demonstrated. The BPT IC's remained in my closet for 8 years, but when recently having them cryo'ed via full immersion, they are now the most musical I've yet owned or auditioned.
Hi and thanks a lot indde for the very informative e valuable advice
I have only a mid/high end experience with Cardas Neutral Ref IC and i was amazed by the difference they made in sound.
They transformed my digital cd player in a turntable litterally.
And they are of the litz kind. So it seems that litz is indeed a sane concept for signal cables.
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
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