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Odds are that your jacket is NOT Teflon

I haven't found other than one manufacturer in the US that does a Teflon jacket, and as Jon said, you have to buy that stuff in 1000' rolls! Also, it's not cheap at all.

So if you're going for the sound and you're going through the trouble, you may want to go unjacketed, as Jon strongly suggests.

You're not going to get shit sound if you keep the jackets on, at least that's been my experience. But if you are going to do this only once, then you might as well do it the best way you can.

Once you unjacket them and have to deal with twisting or braiding or both, and especially if you're thinking of bi-wiring, then you may want to do some serious research here in the Cables archives. Try a thread called "longcat" as I recall, or "gomer cable". Different methods to determine best geometry and some construction details too.


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