Thick or thin speaker & interconnect cables ?


I have ss pre & tube amp (only 10w/chanel single end).Which cables (interconnect & speaker cables),thick or thin are worked best which my combination?
Thanks
Henry
henrynd
Let me offer my limited experience. I own a Moth s45 SET amp that outputs 1.8-6wpc depending on output tube (either 2a3 or 45) rectifier tube and bias point. After reading many posts on the benefits of small gauge solid-core wire, either silver or copper, I decided to try it myself. My existing bi-wire cables were typical Audiophile fare; Silverline Audio copper cables that match the internal wiring in my Silverline speakers.

I substituted 24awg (5n) 99.999% pure silver wire with 20awg teflon tubing, bare-wired to the top-posts, while keeping the Silverlines on the bottom (for now). RESULTS: IMS the performance was much improved, paralleling many of the benefits of SET amplification itself. The cost of $64 for a 10' pair was a plus. Highly recommended. YMMV.
At 10W/ch all you will ever need is to keep your cables as short and as newtral as possible. You can go as low as 20AWG for the speaker cable since the current isn't high.
Hello Henry, try contacting Luis at Stage3 Concepts, he would be able to suggest and/or build you the best cables for your system.

www.stage3concepts.com

Good luck,
Chris

If you believe Malcolm Omar Hawksford, "The Essex Echo", generally regarded as the one and only classic article on cable theory, interconnect wire should be thin. But speaker cables should in general be thick, and as short as possible, which is not to say that the individual wires in them should be thick. Thick wires in any cable bring on "skin effect", which surely everyone agrees is bad. Many prestigious IC's of yore, and for all I know some today, have wire in them that's MUCH too thick, if Hawksford is right, and 24 gauge may be a step in the right direction but wouldn't be counted as thin by good cable designers today.