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In Reply to: RE: Speaker Cable? posted by Audio Curious on March 24, 2014 at 10:33:12
Period wire would be either lamp cord or the similar, original Monster Cable. Fulton cable (think garden hose) was also an early adopter. For more current stuff you can try the Cable Asylum, where there are more believers, however, I would avoid cable that has extreme capacitance or inductance. Your receive might not be able to drive it properly. It could even blow. I would also recommend you stick with lower priced stuff.
There is also the flat parallel stuff, if you want to run under carpet. I have had interest in this type, as of late because the inductance and capacitance cancel each other out. This type of cable measures like a Zobel.
Dave
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... by now, under its clear plastic covering. Mine certainly did, many years ago.
Any of the old Original Monster Cable would be green, like the stuff I had. However, I don't think it was due to the clear PVC cover. I think it was just poorly manufactured. I have lamp cord dating back to the 60's that my father used where the copper is still good. The newer version of the original Monster Cable fares much better and is still available. The newer knockoff seems to fare better too. A lot of inmates do not want to do business with Monster Cable due to their extremely aggressive and litigation happy trade mark protection. They now seemed to have backed off because of customer backlash. I expect the stuff that Eli linked to is just as good and is less money.
Dave
I think that in order to have oxidation you have to have oxygen. I have no reason to believe this, but the Marshall (Mogami) Sound Runner cable that I've used miles of, might not oxidize like that, being low-oxygen copper.
For the OP the Sound Runner would be ideal. It's the same giant-zipcord format as the original Monster Cable but made out of extremely nice materials. And yes it does sound better than zipcord.
Too bad he's way over there. I've got plenty of it that I'm never going to use.
It is the PVC: Poly Vinyl Chloride. The chlorides eventually leach out and attack the bare copper. I thought it was environmental factors till I noticed the middle of a 30 foot run of Monster has green almost black and the ends were relatively pristine. Couldn't be air running along the copper insulation interface.
I pulled these from Acoustat Medallion transformers years ago. :)
On the other hand, oxidation happens. Here is the cloth I recently used on all my *gold plated* jacks and connectors from the last two year cleaning using Deoxit. The upper left section is just from the unused jacks on an Audio Research preamp!
Makes sense, When rubber insulation is used the copper is wrapped with a thin paper to seperate the copper from the insulation otherwise the sulfur in the rubber will oxidize the copper.
Monster cable using cheap PVC perhaps?
I have read that it did have something to do with the composition of the PVC. Apparently some formulas are better than others.
Dave
dissing the almighty monster
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