Western Electric Cloth copper 3M 16GA Wire for IC's


I have talked to a couple of guys who have praised the sonic benefits of this vintage conductor.  Can anyone offer an opinion about using this cable for interconnect cables, either pro or con?  Thank you.  Mark
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I had been using WE 14g speaker wire bi wired with Belden 8402 IC's and was very pleased with it. Certainly can't beat the price but it's not for everyone. It's more of a vintage sound with great tone and very musical and while detailed it's not nearly as transparent as many cables on the market. It works great with tube amps. Some that have heard it in my system thought it lacked transparency and they're probably right but I find the sound to be very natural and real sounding. I have some Duelund 16g on order as many seem to prefer it and unlike WE 16g its readily available. I'm also going to try Cerious Technologies Graphene Extreme cables as they are supposed to be very real sounding with great tone along with great transparency.......maybe the best of both worlds? I shall see.