Can one use assymetric wire gauge for speaker cable construction?

@audio_phool - The speaker cables I and many others have built use 2 x 16 gauge solid UP-OCC copper wire (or 2 x 14 gauge) for the signal and 1 x 10 gauge Silver plated stranded Mil-Spec wire for the Neutral wire and they sound excellent

Here’s a link for DIYer’s on how to make them

http://image99.net/blog/

And here’s what other Audiogon members think of them

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/duelund-conversion-to-diy-helix-geometry-cabling

If you have and questions just post them on the thread above

Regards - Steve

There is one caveat pertaining to asymmetric cables and that is they DO NOT work well with amplifiers that adopt a balanced symmetrical differential design.

i.e. - where both speaker output terminals carry the same signal, but 180 degrees out of phase

This style of amplifier REQIES prefect symmetry between both +ve and -ve conductors - i.e. wire type, gauge, insulation type and cable geometry

There are several amps that use this approach and the list appears to be growing quite fast - but at this point in time they tend to be higher end products.

Here are a few

• Accuphase E-303
• Anthem - Some Models
• Atma-Sphere - all models
• Audio Research - Some Models
• Ayre - all models
• Balanced Audio Technology
• BAT VK-255SE

• Boulder 500AE

• D’Agostino - Some Models
• Musical Fidelity - High End Models

• Pass Labs
• PS Audio BHK Signature 300

• Vitus
• Yamaha some models

Regards - Steve