Amp Internal Wire


Hi Gents, has anyone have any experience with upgrading amp or preamp internal signal wire? Most older equipment seems to have thin maybe sometimes poor internal wiring. In the world of OFC/OCC/Sterling and even more exotic wire available these days, any experiments done using this internally on components swapping out the cheap?

Lots of discussion about doing this with speakers, but never with components I've seen. For instance, I am thinking about replacing copper 'appliance' wire in an old Bryston with 14awg sterling from the board to the speaker binding post board.

 

Any thoughts?

rickysnit

Showing 1 response by dmk_calgary

This is TOTALLY subjective, based on what I did a few years ago. I re-wired and updated an old Dynaco Preamp - I forget the model number - PAS3? In any case, just for laughs, I replaced my SS pre-amp with the Dynaco, and was blown away by the increase in SQ, mostly dynamics. After a few hours, I replaced all the internal wiring, which was part of the upgrade plan. I used Kimber Kable, I think, and the existing wiring was all original. I plugged it back in and it sounded like crap. I let it go with some CD's playing while I had dinner. After dinner, the sound was better than before - still the dynamics, but also the highs were clearer - at least to me.  So definitely worth the effort to re-wire. I got two lessons from this - tubes blow away SS for SQ, and wire DOES make a difference. Enjoy.