I get it, and no slight was intended, at all. Cardas makes good wire. I was just pointing out the promotional rhetoric in their document that ignored the “poly” dielectric yet referred to the cotton filler as the dielectric, since most DIY’ers prefer cotton. Marketing slight-of-hand.
If I wanted to make my own speaker cables, is this a good choice for wire?
https://www.partsconnexion.com/DUELUND-86376.html
Duelund Dual DCA16GA 2x16 awg, Tin-plated, Stranded Copper, Oiled Cotton Speaker/Interconnect Cable
I'm thinking this wire and adding some quality banana plugs or RCA connectors to make interconnects. Is 2x16 enough or should I double up? Is shielding an issue? Thanks!
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Using inexpensive CAT6 plenum cable - solid copper, not aluminum, you can make an exceptionally good speaker cable: Jung and Marsh stated that their tests showed that the use of multiple thin gauge solid core wires in parallel was the best way to go. This gives you low capacitance with no phase or skin effect problems in or directly above the audible range. |
@esarhaddon -all good @tubeguy76 - the post by @stager2 is true, CAT cable can be used to make really good sounding speaker cables. Here is an older articles explaining one alternative but there are easier methods, I have no idea which would sound best. |
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