Homemade speaker wire.

Posted by ZZZman [IP: 24.1.211.109] on February 24, 1999 at 19:16:19
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Has anyone tried this. I intend to.

As for building your own, I heartily encourage this type of endeavor. You learn so much by doing it yourself! You can save money, have fun and get better performance from your system. What more could you ask from this hobby?

For the money, the twisted pair solid core geometry simply cannot be beaten in my opinion. Until I moved from dynamic speakers to electrostatics, this geometry yielded the highest performance per dollar. My most pleasing sounding construction came from twisting two 14 AWG solid core conductors together at a pitch of about one full revolution every three inches for the plus run (Call electrical supply houses. I found this wire available for under 10 cents per foot. Believe me, the time it takes struggling to twist (use a variable speed drill) and terminate them is well worth the effort!). I repeated this procedure with two 14 AWG solid core conductors with a different color insulation at the same pitch for the return run. The construction was then completed by twisting the two finished "twisted pair" wires into a final "twisted pair" pair. The results are simply wondrous with most power/speaker combinations. Substantially increased dynamics, higher highs, lower lows and a dramatically more focused soundstage than with any variety stranded speaker wire. (I hope so)

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