Looking for really fine cables at really low price

Maxima, I haven't forgotten! I was away for a while so the V-Twist cables are still a way from being fully broken in. I now have a little over 250 hours on them but Chris VH says they need 400 to 500 hours before settling down. Apparently this is due to the Teflon spacer tubes in the cable. I now have them running 24/7 and I plan to continue this until they are at least over 400.

For now I will say they certainly have a lot of potential. They have excellent speed, detail and soundstaging. I had some quibbles about the midrange but I am optimistic that will fall in line especially in light of how things have improved over the lsst 100 hours or so.

I am still using the Switchcraft RCA plugs so I can do a fair apples-to-apples comparison to my Beldens. Assuming that comparison works out in favor of the V-Twist (which I am pretty sure will be the case), I will then try the WBT 0102 copper plugs recommended by Chris VH.

I will report back in another 10 days or so. I promise!

Thanks for responding. Better to realize their full potential.

Grannyring, Jetrexpro, all
I noticed on the Jeff Day Blog and elsewhere that a bunch of fellas are building Power Cables out of the Western Electric WE16ga. It seems like most are having good success. It appears that Day will be installing the WE16ga PC on his McIntosh MC30s.

Have any of you done this? Results? Best, Rob

Not yet, but I suspect TWL may be using the WE10 ga in their Seven Plus and 10 Plus — American Series power cables. They advertise 525 conductors in the Seven Plus and 315 conductors in the Ten Plus. If they are using WE10ga wire, that has about 104-105 conductors per wire (30ga per conductor like the other gauges of WE wire), so one wire each for neutral and hot, plus one for ground, would be three wires with 105 conductors each or 315 conductors. Likewise, if they are using four runs of the 10ga in a star-quad configuration for the Seven Plus, and one additional run of 10ga for ground, that would be 5 wires at 105 conductors per wire or 525 conductors. Coincidence?

Mojo Audio had good success using some type of WE wire for PCs early on but I believe they ran out of the WE stuff and are using different wire now.

I quit using the WE wire for speaker cable so I purchased several Furutech copper plugs/iecs and plan to start by making a pair of unshielded star-quad 10ga (7ga per pole) PCs for my monoblocks. If that goes well, I will try using the 14 or 16 ga wire I have here with a shield for front end gear. I have a bunch of the wire here that I bought before deciding to use other speaker cables so I need to do something with it.

Thanks Mitch2,
I suspected TWL was using WE. Best, Rob