Soundlab M1 and Alpha-Core cables

Sean, I had a couple of ideas on the twisting, but, its not really that important. I admire your ambition, and hope you share your results.

I hope this isn't taking this thread to far off course; upon reading Duke's post I went to the Magnan site and noticed that Magnan and Alpha-core while similar have a d different thoughts re; orientation. Magnan suggests that the positive and negative legs should be kept side by side and Alpha-core suggests top over bottom. Wireworld is marketing similar video cables and suggests top over bottom. When I spoke to Alpha-core re: using seperate legs for postive and negative (in order to facilitate simpler termination amongst other reasons) they said that I would be reducing their cable to "expensive jumpers". IMHO, the Magnan terminations seem a bit inelegant and might make cable dressign quite a nuisance. Analysis Plus concept of hollow cables would to my ignorant mind seem like a good thing. I can't help but wonder if an oval configuation of the Cogan Hall cables wouldn't be a bad idea. Any thoughts of about using twin thin hollow oval silver tubes individually wrapped in teflon and twisted that could be integrally termintated as speaker cables?

Sean, thank you for your reply. At the risk of appearing argumentative, wouldn't it be possible to twist these tubes in such a manner so that the same side of each coductor would maintain contact? The only reason I suggest this arrangement is because Alpha-core suggests that "purling" has some advantages. Perhaps we could even abandon the idea of twisting. Would hollow oval tubes have an advantage over solid oval conductors?