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In Reply to: RE: Oh yeah. posted by Dave Pogue on May 13, 2012 at 05:48:03
Dave, is this the kind of magnet wire you mean:
http://www.powerwerx.com/wire-cable/magnet-wire.html?gclid=CPjz-Kqr_a8CFQhahwod_zv-VA
How thin was it that you tried that was better than Kimber?
Also, what cables are you using now?
Thanks
Jim
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And I have to correct a case of geezer memory. The original recommendation in "Listener" was to use magnet wire for interconnects, not speaker wire. I don't know where I got the idea to try it for speaker wire. Can't imagine it was original, but maybe.
Anyway, see the link for the stuff recommended in "Listener." It was the middle one (28 gauge?) I mostly used. It demonstrated to me at least that the speaker wire I had been perfectly happy with was really veiled and dull by comparison.
What I'm using now is Morrow Audio SP-3. This APPEARS to me to be something like the magnet wire in twisted-pair form. The more twisted pairs the better, I have found.
Thanks. Huh, well you have me wondering...taking two lengths of that thin magnet wire, some strips of bicycle inner tube rubber, twist the two wires together into a twisted pair with the rubber in between. Then get some fat copper magnet wire ala what I linked, do that same thing for a second length. Solder connector onto both twisted pairs, connect the thin twisted pair to the tweeter in a biwire, and the thick to the woofer. Wonder how that $5.00 cable would sound. I'll have to try it now. Guess I could wrap the whole thing in electrical tape for a start.
Jim
What I did, just to experiment, is even simpler. The magnet wire is already insulated with thin varnish. I just cut a couple lengths to size, burned the insulation off the ends with a candle, and wired the amp/speaker links with single wires (one for "+", one for "-"), just wrapped around the connectors -- i.e., no spades or bananas. This was just to try the principle.
Later I wired twisted pairs using a hand drill at one end and a vise at the other. I'd tell you whether this sounded better, but frankly I can't remember (it was over 15 years ago). I was just amazed that it worked at all, let alone that I liked the result better than what I had been using. Except, that is, for the somewhat threadbare sound in the lower mids.
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