I think you will be pleasantly suprised and proud of your work. I would have tinned the wire with the best Silver solder you could find and use them in the nude form. Short of that the best copper spade on -neg and silver spade on+ that you could find. Report back with your findings. The nude recommendation is the best and least expensive IMO/E.
Will I hear a difference with these cables?
I'm almost finished making my own Cat5 based speaker cables. They will be between 6 and 7 feet long and will have four runs of Cat 5 per speaker. I left all of the shielding in place for the majority of the run and simply put some 15mm heat shrink on them to keep the four cables together. I am using some monoprice.com banana connectors to terminate the 16 strands of solid core 24 AWG wire. I've grouped the colors and white together to maintain the advantage of the twisted pairs. One of the two is complete other than the final heat shrink covering the ends to make sure nothing touches that shouldn't.
My current speaker wires are the basic original Monster Cable with some angled pin connectors on the receiver end and bare wire at the speaker.
I don't really have an expectation one way or the other, just an experiment and something to do for entertainment.
Anyone care to make a prediction of what I'll hear, if anything?
My current speaker wires are the basic original Monster Cable with some angled pin connectors on the receiver end and bare wire at the speaker.
I don't really have an expectation one way or the other, just an experiment and something to do for entertainment.
Anyone care to make a prediction of what I'll hear, if anything?