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In Reply to: REVIEW: DIY by Chris VenHaus VH Audio's UniCrystal™ 18 AWG OCC Wire Cable posted by oofer on January 18, 2007 at 23:43:29:
OCC, which IS single-crystal, with white (only) Teflon insulation. 70 cents, not $2.49, per foot.But after winding, you'd have to identify which conductor is which with an Ohmeter. Is that worth saving $3.58 (assuming a 2-conductor cable) per foot?
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No it isn't. Please ask next time, if you are uncertain...
Could you provide a url?
...at 940/689-9800 or Elliot in the warehouse at 800/689-4434.SC also has Vampire Wire enameled ('magnet') wire in 20- and 26g. for 50 and 25 cents per foot. This also is OCC, super-hi-purity copper. I used a trio of this to make speaker cable and to wire my OB dipole linearrays.
It's net-15-1/2g. and fairly easy to make--I wound, in opposite directions, the 2 conductor bundles around a 4g. teflon tube I got from Percy, and anchored it all with Teflon plumber's tape. Included a dielectric-bias system--24g. insulated wires to each conductor bundle for the positive, and 18g. bare copper wrapped around the outside for the negative--and 'powered' that with 58VDC from 6 9V batteries.I'm a big fan of silver conductors and have lots of Audioquest Cheetah IC in my system, but the system sounded SO good with entry-level Audioquest copper as conductors, I decided to use high-quality copper in my final wiring and save $400 in the process.
I have more in-process pics if you're interested; e-mail me at jeffreybehr(at)cox(dot)net.
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