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In Reply to: RE: what quality in a speaker wire work well with Maggies? I am using a ss amp and have SMGa posted by PhilJ on June 18, 2015 at 21:12:49
Use the stranded silver on copper mil spec cable
12 gauge should be fine up to 10 ft, 10gauge if you want longer cables
Use screw on connectors don't solder.
2 options for laying out the cable
twist the cable pairs about 1 twist per ft and tape them together near the ends and every 3-4 ft.
Take a packaging tape and lay the wires 1/4" from the edge on either side. Then carefully cover it with another layer of tape - the only purpose here is to provide a fixed parallel layout.
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If you have the patience, the parallel setup is what I prefer to do though I don't have clear cut results from listening experience since I changed the cable layout of the same wires so could not do a heads on comparison. The differences were subtle and it was some years ago.
I should note that this cable recipe has a more open top end - in the "air" portion of the spectrum rather than the presence portion.
For more rapid breakin use the cable as lamp cord on a 100watt lamp for a few days.
all the best
Phil
I've searched using Google Images in attempt to see what the suggested speaker wire looks like. Would this be it:?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANY-COLOR-10-AWG-Teflon-Insulated-Silver-Plated-Stranded-Wire-M16878-4-Bulk-WWWC-/171715033608?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27fb037a08
If not, could you please direct to a correct image?
Electrical considerations aside, what is the auditory effect of using an undersized gauge? Would it be rolled off higher frequencies such as heard when using resistors to 'pad' Maggies? I use ~30 feet of the original 12 gauge Monster Wire to connect my amps to all Tympani IV-A panels. Not only are my speakers located distant to their amps, but I employ added lengths of wire which allow me to pull the speakers away from the front wall and into the listening area, and/or to various other locals. I'm not experiencing anything like rolled off highs. If anything, I sometimes dial down the high frequencies on a Marchand XM44-2 or consider installing some of the resistors (as provided by Magnepan), i.e. although in a densely furnished carpeted room. Even at my advanced age, the Tympanis sound too 'bright'.
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Thanks for your reply. I suppose I owe it to myself to try them out, if only to hear what I might learn.
In the case of tympani bass panels it is wooly bass and a lack of dynamic slam when using thin wire. Going from 12 gauge to 8 gauge was very obvious. It was much more obvious at -20db on CD = 90db spl than at 80dbspl
At the top end a thin gauge wire would tend to get you a less rolled off sound and more bright.
I avoid naked stranded copper and in particular in PVC since they age gracelessly and lose detail and dynamics over time, supposedly because of the semiconductor properties of copper oxides, particularly when doped with chlorine from the PVC, which is not a good dielectric, which combines with the multipath distortion. When using stranded wire I use silver plated.
Im using antiwires and they are exellent better than my more expensive cables
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