In Reply to: Bottleheader's Favorite Speaker Wires and IC's (DIY or 'store bought')? posted by PureAudio on February 25, 2004 at 12:17:23:
Like everyone else started with braided cat 5 cable, sounded OK, went to single stranded silver, much better, and finally to silver ribbon ala Allen Wright, the best sounding to date. I am now trying some litz braided cryo treated cat 6, this is very close to the silver ribbon cable. I have ordered some Van den Hul C-122 cable, will give it a try. The only commercial cable that I have used is Silver Sonic, it was equal to the cat 5 braided cable but all other of my cables have been far superiorFor IC's I have tried everything out there, my best cables are solid silver, silver ribbon, braided CCC magnet wire, and now solid 20 awg Vampire CCC, I really enjoy this construction. Personally I am leaning toward any cable built with the Vampire CCC magnet wire (litz braided), with Eichmann Bullet RCA's or Vampire 800c OFC RCA's. I much prefer the sound of Continious Cast Copper over Silver in my system. All interconnect are encased in some sort of teflon (tube, 3/8" tape, plumbers tape)with braided copper around that, grounded only at one end, and with heat shrink over the cu braid. I use teflon plumbers tape on all bare copper in the RCA, and fill in the void inside the RCA's case with a split EAR plug.
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- Re: Bottleheader's Favorite Speaker Wires and IC's (DIY or 'store bought')? - lee hankins 17:10:07 02/25/04 (7)
- Re: Bottleheader's Favorite Speaker Wires and IC's (DIY or 'store bought')? - Grainger49 06:58:24 02/26/04 (2)
- www.vacuumstate.com (nt) - lee hankins 08:24:15 02/26/04 (1)
- Thanks!<NT> - Grainger49 05:57:40 02/27/04 (0)
- Lee, A question about your ICs - Cappy 17:18:45 02/25/04 (3)
- Re: Lee, A question about your ICs - lee hankins 17:30:21 02/25/04 (2)
- Re: Lee, A question about your ICs - Steve Eddy 22:28:03 02/25/04 (1)
- Re: Lee, A question about your ICs - lee hankins 22:45:38 02/25/04 (0)