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RE: Damping Magnet / Anticable wire

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In Reply to: RE: Damping Magnet / Anticable wire posted by johnvb on February 03, 2011 at 07:04:13

Hey J,

Those boxes look nice. I might have to try that hammered product. The finish is what is beating me. Long story, and I doubt anyone can help...I am the problem there :)

6-12" is a good amount. Are you saying you had the bunched up middle with that config? If so then yeah it seems like another room or setup related issue.

So are you just using a single conductor per cable, spiraled around the tube?

Sorry for the confusion. I start with 2 30g conductors for each + and - leg. I twist them together (only the same leg) with teflon tape. I end up with 4 conductors (+- for each speaker). Each conductor (2 30g wires) is in its own tube with no touching of the + and - conductors (as in the pict you show). The tube is filled with sand then tech flexed and the + and - tube are twisted together and some heat shrink is added to keep it all together. Anyhow, here is a diagram:

DO let us know how the damping turns out and which you prefer. I just threw in the sand and closed it up after I heard the benefits of the sand.

No one here remembers the bending of our minds

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RE: Damping Magnet / Anticable wire - Hoshi 10:52:14 02/03/11 (1)
Hey DR.....what is the PVC you have in your cable diagram? Also is the flex tech available at Home Depot or does it have to be purchased at a Parts Express type of store.

H
- RE: Damping Magnet / Anticable wire - Dawnrazor 11:28:06 02/03/11 (0)
  The pvc was just some tubing they sell in the plumbing section. I am not saying it is ideal but it is easy to find, cheap, flexible and I hope far enough away from the conductors to not be a big deal.
  
  I thought you were using a similar material.
  
  The tech flex is available at parts express and I doubt home depot would have it, but look in the wire loom section and I might be wrong.
  
  Jbens tape might be a better option, though I like the looks of the finished one I have.
  
  I totally get magnepan and the compromises they make. That cable i show is nothing but compromises :) Good ones I think, but still.
  
  And well no one accuses you of running THIN wire!! Kind of why it ended up the way it did.
  
  Hopefully in the next 5 years I'll make some new speaker cables with my current thoughts and post some picts. The thing is that it really takes a few tries to get things where I am happy. I think I am just older these days and lack the patience I had in spades in my youth....just like dawnrazor to get it backwards...
  
  No one here remembers the bending of our minds
RE: Damping Magnet / Anticable wire - johnvb 10:20:29 02/03/11 (0)
Yep, instead of trying to match my (non) skills with the other woodcrafters around here, I just went with the form follows function design. I have the same problem with the final finishing step.

If I were to do it over again, I would of kept all my box corner edges square, and covered everything with some of that iron-on veneer that PE sells, no painting involved.

As far as my sound, don't get me wrong, I get good stereo separation, depth, etc. Defiantly don't have the music sitting in front of the speakers, like my old Fostex monitors. I just know when I temporarily threw in the raw OC703 insulation I bought to make room treatment panels, I heard better.

Thanks for the diagram, that makes it clear.

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