For my home theater, like Brownsfan, I need long, continuous runs and TeresaJacobs on Ebay has sold out all the long runs. I would like to hear comments regarding the manufacturing year of the WE cables. Some sellers, like “soundofthetheater” on Ebay have WE14ga made in 1999, a couple years before American Insulated Wire went out of business. Is this kind of “late vintage” wire as good as the older ones? They should be at least similar based on specs but maybe not sonic wise.
So far, the most impressive types has been the WE16ga for interconnect with Canara F10 and the WE10ga for power cords with Furutech FI-28. The Belden 8402 sounds good but IME is not on the same league as, e.g. Jupiter’s Cotton 6N Copper. Maybe I need more burn in with the 8402.
FYI I have the following power cords variants with WE10ga ready for testing which may take a very long time as I don’t have a cable cooker:
1a. Unshielded, dual wire twisted, no sleeve (like Jeff Day)
1b. Shielded dual wire twisted, no sleeve
2. Unshielded, twisted dual wire, sleeve, ground wire counter clock wise outer sleeve
3a. Unshielded, braided three wires, sleeve
3b. Shielded, braided three wires, sleeve
4. Unshielded, single hot wire in a tube for extra dampening, neutral spiraling clock wise and ground anti clock wise, sleeve
All cords are 6ft long and terminated with Furutech FI-11 (cu) which is pretty good and affordable for such a test. Will report back after the long test.
mitch2: how does the double wired WE10ga power cord sound vs the single runs and how do you connect the culminated 7ga on an AC plug or IEC a they are made mostly up to 8ga max.
