Bypassing connectors is a good move, but dirt cheap wire won't sound as good as a good interconnect. I strongly suspect, from looking inside components and having read M.O. Hawksford's "The Essex Echo" in Stereophile a few years ago, that even many top high end designers don't know much about internal wire. For example, Sonic Frontiers uses Kimber AGSS in an upgrade for their SFCD-1, and I KNOW it's greatly inferior, even in very short runs, to MUCH thinner high purity silver, just as Hawksford's article implies. If you carry through your project, get good advice on wire to use or you won't get the full benefits, if any benefits at all. Please let us know how it turns out. An interesting idea.
dedicated interconnect ?
has anyone ever connected the same wire used to make internal connections in audio components directly from output stage bypassing jack rca or balanced then directly to input at amp? once again bypassing input jack and internal wiring this sounds very simple after all the internal wiring is part of the signal path yes the length would be longer but could be customized to requirements components could be placed closer together shorter path and shielded with lead plate or whatever blocks magnetic fields to minnimize emi wires could be braided or shielded for rfi and emi sounds simple? this wire is probably dirt cheap and and could be a logical connection after all internal connectios arent made with interconnects with jacks they are point a to point b soldered connections does this sound too easy?
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