Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables


All

I am looking for speaker cables with solid core and not stranded conductors.

I know about resin/DNM and Audioquest Type 4 and CV-8. What other alternatives are out there?

Cheers

T

total111

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Looking into the Acoustic Revive Range of Speaker Cables using PC Triple C Wire is well worth taking the time to do so.

There are Speaker Cables with Solid Wire in both 0.9mm and 1.1mm.

I use the 0.9mm and all other used Speaker Cables are Superseded b this one.

I would really like to the trial the 1.1mm on my collection of owned Speakers, to see why it is their most highly rated and if 1.1mm is able the be a betterment as a  synergy.

@total111 I have been down the route of Branded Cables and had a lot of experiences with a large Variety of brands.

Too many unsatisfactory audible end sounds was instrumental in prompting myself to look at things differently, which was to see which Wire Types were being used and which of these were receiving a lot of good reports on the impression made.

After a period of trying out Wire Only as a Speaker Cable, using a range of wires for comparative purposes. I ended up at very fair monies outlaid with what I will refer to as a Standard Copper - OFC - OCC with length produced as Stranded Wire and Solid Wire. The investigation got a little more costlier when Mapleshade Solid Wire was introduced.

Over a long period of time the Mapleshade proved to be the wire type I was to become most impressed with.

My not coming of the Gas, introduced me to other more modern concepts on Wire Production, where uber Production Companies such Furukawa and Mitsubishi   had ventured into producing Wires where they were not under a license to do so.

I ended up with both PC Triple C and D.U.C.C wire to try out and in the case of the PC Triple C, this was a stranded and solid wire being trialed.

Strictly limited to Speakers Only, the PC Triple C Solid Core has Superseded all other used Cables selected for this role.

In relation to wire Type for other Interfaces both PC Triple C and D.U.C.C have found a place of permanency.

As for PC Triple C, I have now experienced it in use as initially Cartridge Tag Wires, which evolved into it being used as a Tone Arm Wand Wire, Speaker Cables in a Variety of Systems as Stranded and Solid Core, Umbilical's, Power Cables, Internal Device Hook UP wire, Internal Wire on Speaker Cabinets. In some cases O have been able to hear it A/B compared to the earlier version without Triple C in use.

My introducing others to PC Triple C caused quite a large number of adopters of the wire over a not too extended period. This new group were the cause for the levy to break on where the wire type will be best used in a Audio System.

My experiencing Triple C in use across a range of placements has not yet showed up a positioning for it, where it has been felt the recollection of the earlier version has been the better option. 

 

  

Hi @total111, Mapleshade is a twisted wire referred to as the Clearview Double Helix.

It is this Wire that sparked an Interest in the Thread shown in the Links.

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

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

There is plenty going on within the Linked Thread to convince an individual expressing an interest in Speaker Cables,  Umbilical Cable in the Signal Path or Power Cables, that a little experimentation can hit the right configuration for their purposes.

I have been in a uncertain situation with my audio equipment, as a Home Overhaul is to change things and when complete will be quite different to what I have created to date for a set up for my audio. This has stopped me doing certain things with Cable. I have a large reserve of PC Triple C Wire in Stranded and Solid, with a PC CCC / EX Wire also awaiting its usage. Again my system in late 2024 / early 2025 has been converted to Balanced, when I am once more settled the Wires will be used to produce Cables as outlined in the Links.

In the Links it is also able to found in the Original Thread, that I had encouraged a couple of individuals to use PC Triple C. On Page 16, it is possible to see the copy / pasted comments below, that area report by one builder with experience of other Wires used for same designs of Cable 

I like the Triple C XLRs very much.   I believe they out perform my previous OCC builds.  Just sensing more clarity, better voicing, overall info that I haven't heard previously with my go to music.

This is a 30" cable with AECO copper/silver XLRs.   (2) 19awg bare Triple C conductors (+, -) inside teflon tubing.  Neotech 16awg for ground (Helix wrap).

May look at replacing some internal hookup wire with the Triple C.   Good stuff..."

In the UK there is commonly a reference made to using ZenMarket to get access to Vendors of the Wire.