Champagne taste, beer budget IC experiment

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On an impulse I bought some single conductor, silver plated copper, Kapton insulated, 26ga wire off of Ebay. The plan was to use some Dayton gold-plated RCA plugs and this wire to make some twisted pair IC's. My concoction (about $20) replaces a Mn$tr cable M550i between my CD player and my pre. The "M" cable didn't cost me anything, but I've seen it priced $30-to-$50. Well, the "M" cable is getting spanked, both in cost and performance. Even with the very low cost Dayton RCA plugs. Lots of low level detail and very clean highs. I will be doing another IC for the pre-to-amp connection soon.
This single-strand, silver plated copper wire seems to be pretty good stuff. Solid silver wire IC's with top quality plugs probably sound better, but hardly fall into the "Beer Budget" scheme.
I would like to eventually get some Eichmann Bullet's to take things up a notch tho' ;^).

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Topic - Champagne taste, beer budget IC experiment - RickeyM 23:14:54 01/25/07 (3)

good quality silver possible on a beer budget - troporobo 18:23:14 01/26/07 (0)

Yeah, fun isn't it? - grailer 17:41:14 01/26/07 (0)

I've also built some great IC's for almost peanuts. Plus, you can experiment with the design for ... - PureAudio 17:20:57 01/26/07 (0)

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