@total111 Afraid not. They look interesting. Quad ESL57 with Neotech solid copper OCC. I run solid core silver on Spendors in a second rig. You really have to get the correct cable for the specific combination. For example I swapped mine between systems and they did not work at all.
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@noromance take the speed and smoothness and beauty of your quads and combine it with the oomph and authority of your spendors and you get an idea of the tocaros |
@total111 -- Mundorf CUW210GY/OG solid core enameled copper wire (originally a coil wire), 18AWG (1mm conductor diameter) with a teflon insulator. Using them over my JBL 2405 Alnico tweeters (105dB sensitivity), and a few days ago received a new length of the same cable/AWG to try out with my 111dB sensitive EV DH1A + HP9040 CD horn instead of my Mundorf solid core ~15AWG Silver/gold wires (1.5mm conductor diameter, 99% pure silver and 1% gold), also teflon insulated. The latter are great (and expensive) speaker cables, and I’ve owned them for over 15 years with no intention to ever let go of them, but they’re not necessarily the very best match with horns as sensitive as the EV horns that cover 5 octaves and are coupled to SS amps, which I’m about to find out. I suspect their amp won’t deliver more than a few hundred milliwatts for most of my listening, and with power levels that low it may exacerbate differences in conductor material, potential material blending and conductor thickness. One has to factor in possible phase variations with larger conductor diameters (i.e.: above ~1mm diameter) in a wider frequency spectrum due to skin effect, and with speakers as sensitive as yours you are likely to benefit from relatively thin wires like the above mentioned Mundorf copper wires (top to bottom), solid core not least. |
I highly recommend AirTech cables by the Italian company Audio Analogue. They offer three lines: Omega 2, Evo 2, and Zero — all made with 7N OCC solid-core conductors. These cables sound phenomenal. If you’re interested, check their website to find the current U.S. distributor. Honestly, I’d be surprised if anyone wasn’t satisfied with them. |
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