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In Reply to: RE: DIY Auditorium 23 speaker cables posted by PranaBindu on June 26, 2019 at 15:23:43
I tried the original cable about 25 years ago. I liked it a lot. Don't know if it still can compete with cables of today.
Anyway, it was said that the wire was Belden. Don't know if that's true or not.
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I think I figured out something important. It didn't make sense that each twisted pair would contain a smaller gauge wire and a larger gauge wire. The twists would tend to be non-uniform and probably very difficult to manufacture. I started looking at the photos online closer, and I think that the manufacturer pulls an interesting trick: Each channel has two twisted pairs, but one pair is not for positive and the other is not for negative; there is a twisted pair of smaller gauge, and there is a twisted pair of the larger gauge; the smaller gauge and the larger gauge get separated just before termination, so that each leg of each channel has one smaller and one larger wire. That's got to be it!
The plugs came in. The interior diameter is about 0.15 inches (3.8 mm). I believe that will fit a 12ga and a 14ga, but I have no clue what the actual cable uses. I think I'll keep staring at photos....
May the bridges we burn light our way....
Btw I remember that Auditorium 23 recommended a minimum length of 5 m for their speaker cable which came as a surprise to me as I always though the shorter the SC the better.
Hope this helps.
Just saw in a German forum that the thicker wire should be Belden 9497. The thinner wire should be (maybe) also Belden silver over copper. Nobody knew exactly what the thinner wire was. I found photos of the various diy projects in case you are interested.
Would love to see these photos
Thanks! I'll poke around in the Belden options, but I suspect there are too many to narrow it down. I'm stoked, though!
May the bridges we burn light our way....
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