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dedicated line: 10AWG stranded or 2 solid cores?

I'm in the process of installing 2 dedicated power lines. From what I've been reading 10 AWG solid core, like VH Audio's cryoed Romex, would be optimal. However, in this part of the World we don't manufacture that kind of wire and I only found 10 AWG copper solid core monoconductor insulated in PVC, unshielded.

Hence my question: would I be better off by installing 10 AWG stranded cable, or taking 2 10 AWG solid core monoconductors putting them side by side + a stranded cable for ground and use them as if they were one line?

Thank you!
lewinskih01

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lacee
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I don't why it was so, but I prefer the 10 guage solid core Romex to the ten guage stranded Carol(water proof) wires that I had been using.

I had a couple of dedicated lines using the carol, an elctrician/audio friend suggested to use the solid core wire so I did just one line this way so I could compare.

Regardless of what gear was on what cable(Iswitched back and forth, source on solid, amps on strand and then switched to source on stranded etc)the solid core had the edge in not being edgy at all but in speed and clarity.

The stranded was dull and slow in comparison.
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