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Amp Internal Wire

Hi Gents, has anyone have any experience with upgrading amp or preamp internal signal wire? Most older equipment seems to have thin maybe sometimes poor internal wiring. In the world of OFC/OCC/Sterling and even more exotic wire available these days, any experiments done using this internally on components swapping out the cheap?

Lots of discussion about doing this with speakers, but never with components I've seen. For instance, I am thinking about replacing copper 'appliance' wire in an old Bryston with 14awg sterling from the board to the speaker binding post board.

 

Any thoughts?

rickysnit
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grannyring
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Yes, it all matters. Better quality transformers, foil inductors, chassis IEC, resistors, caps, rectifiers and on and on…Sorry it’s not as simple or cut and dry as you would like to have it. Seems the world of audio and electronics is full of possibilities! All good. No one person can know even a small percentage of what is out there to learn in this field. You are just realizing your limited knowledge and we all suffer from that reality if we are honest.

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holmz
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Rickysnit, I've done this, both the power inlet, fuse holder and internal wire to transformer, and the speaker wire from amp board to binding posts (along with upgrading binding posts), in a Perreaux PMF3150.  Also replaced the RCA inlets with KLE Pure Harmony with VH Audio 21awg silver occ wire.  All done in stages with testing in between.

What kind of testing?

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grannyring
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Listening tests.  The best test of all.  

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holmz
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I could imagine the stuff before the transformer affecting the DC supply’s voltage stability. But without a measurement showing it, it seems more hopeful than factual.

The stuff after the power supply is harder to measure. 

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