I would choose crimping over soldering if it was practical.
Best way of connecting bare wire to bare wire
Sorry if this sounds like a newbie question - I've always had speakers and speaker wires with banana type ends. Now I am trying the whole 'magnet wire' thing (solid core copper 14 awg) and also changing to Magnepan MC1's and MMG-W's. These speakers have multi-strand bare wires coming out of them, and my copper 'speaker wire' is bare as well. My question is, what is the best way to make a high quality connection between a multi strand bare wire and a solid core bare wire? Solder? Crimp connectors? Just wondering what people out there are using in this situation. Thanks!
Brad
Brad
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FWIW, I was reading an interview with a person from WBT. They prefer crimping over soldering. Their Nexgen connectors use soldering only because there isn't enough metal to crimp properly. The previous post about crimping, then covering with an antioxidant coating and shrink tubing seems like a great way to do it if you're handy enough to do those things. By the way, you can buy crimping sleeves individually. I've come across them at this site, where I've bought a number of things over the years. Just scroll down to the WBT section. You can even buy the WBT crimping tool and send it back after using it. They'll buy it back from you at the same price. Pretty cool. http://www.uhfmag.com/Connectors.html If you use wire nuts, that's a neat idea. It beats my first stereo where I hand twisted the wires together and covered the twists with masking tape (It was a long time ago). Naturally, wire nuts need to be special audiophile grade nuts with six nines copper inside the nut and hand made by Swiss mountain gnomes. |