noromance,
unfortunately you're wrong about that maybe you should go to the website and check it out it shows pictures of the cables all the OCC cables are all solid core.
UP-OCC solid core copper for speaker cable
After reading about all these expensive cables and their extravagant claims, I decided to source the same wire that goes into many of them.
I have my monoblocs underneath and therefore close to the speakers. I ordered 8 feet of 14awg UP-OCC wire (with PTFE insulation) online. It is quite springy so I clamped it gently to the bench and cut it into 4 equal lengths. Assembling it into 2 x 24" speaker cables took a few minutes. I kept it running in the same direction, just in case. Be careful to gently slice the insulation and not to scar the copper.
Anyway, the improvement in sound quality was of a high order. Large increases in speed and transparency, more air, better definition of instruments, less coloration, backing voices I never noticed before etc. The improvement in musicality was impressive.
I urge folks to try this before spending lots of money on speaker cables. I don't bother with connectors as I feel they are another item in the way but that's your call. The wire was $6 a foot.
Available here:http://www.partsconnexion.com/wire_hookup_neotech_copper_teflon.html
See a photo of my cable here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6iot28p0weuwytn/up-occ.jpg?dl=0
I have my monoblocs underneath and therefore close to the speakers. I ordered 8 feet of 14awg UP-OCC wire (with PTFE insulation) online. It is quite springy so I clamped it gently to the bench and cut it into 4 equal lengths. Assembling it into 2 x 24" speaker cables took a few minutes. I kept it running in the same direction, just in case. Be careful to gently slice the insulation and not to scar the copper.
Anyway, the improvement in sound quality was of a high order. Large increases in speed and transparency, more air, better definition of instruments, less coloration, backing voices I never noticed before etc. The improvement in musicality was impressive.
I urge folks to try this before spending lots of money on speaker cables. I don't bother with connectors as I feel they are another item in the way but that's your call. The wire was $6 a foot.
Available here:http://www.partsconnexion.com/wire_hookup_neotech_copper_teflon.html
See a photo of my cable here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6iot28p0weuwytn/up-occ.jpg?dl=0
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Neotech, MIT, AQ etc., don’t make their own cables, they are source by companies that are licensed to produce OCC metals i.e. Furukawa,and Sumitomo out of Japan and Wan Lung out of Taiwan. The reason you don’t see manufactures quote the source of their cables is so they can apply their own unique marketing spin. Re-branding is not unique to audio cables. |
testpilot, you really should do your research better LOL, furukawa and sumitomo are no longer producing OCC and guess what Wan Lung is the parent company of Neotech LOL, so yes indeedy Neotech does make their own cables. and again you're wrong about another thing all the companies that are using OCC single crystal wire state it on their websites like zenwave, neotech, Harmonic technology, Acoustic Zen, nowhere on the audioquest site does it say that they're using OCC single Crystal, in fact in their white paper it states that they're using long grain Crystal which has 300 Crystal barriers per foot and then in their PSC+ it states that they're using a higher grade of copper doesn't say it's OCC single Crystal, there is the next level higher grade of long grain Crystal which only has 70 grains per foot so no one really knows what they're using in their PSC+because they don't State what they're using.
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@havocman I resemble that remark!
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