Granny ring, Jetrexpro, all

Grannyring, Jet,
hear you. Likely Day spends some time here. I know he was impressed by your work; I'm positive he is also pressed for time and deadlines. Perhaps that is why Day can not experiment to umpteenth degree and sometimes misses out; but I for one have improved my musical pursuit by learning from Day, Yazaki-san, and you and Jet, Charles1Dad. I trust all your ears and skill, plus you are good folks willing to help others. Best, Rob

Guys, I spent 3 weeks burning in and five days listening to 10ft runs of WE10g stranded speaker wire. My speakers are Audio Note ANe's which are Bi Wired so I used four 10 ft. runs on each speaker. The speaker taps on my Audio Note output transformers are in direct contact with the bare 10g wire. After all of that burn in time and 5 days of listening, the 10gWE stranded wire sounded very thick, too rich and slow and it did not improve over the five days.  After a few days of no improvement,  I stripped off some more insulation from the AN output tranny's 8ohm taps and wrapped the additional tranny wire tightly and securely around the un-terminated 10g wire but still no improvment. Once I reinstalled the 16g WE stranded wire the balance and musicality returned. Not sure why the 10g wire sounded so bloated. Maybe the combination of warm sounding AN speakers and warm sounding 300b tubes and the 10g wire was just too much. I am not giving up on WE10g and have some additional ideas as to why they didn't sound good. But for now I am going to enjoy my great sounding 16gWE stranded speaker wire - Regards Jet.

Thanks Jet for that report. So far I'm using the WE10ga as power cord from wall with Oyaide R-1 and plate set-up to a Cable Pro power strip with no limiting factors. My Coincident Dynamo 34SE is Connected to the Cable Pro via WE10ga. The Transport and DAC are connected to the same strip via WE14ga. WowWowWow!!! Beautiful tone, texture, emotion, dynamics, soundstage wall to wall, great scale, deep, as well. Nicely layered. The harmonic rightness is spectacular. Male and female voices to die for. No hum, buzz, black background and much, much, more...Synergistic Red Fuses next...

This may be why Jeff Day and others using lower powered amplifiers enjoy the 16awg wire while folks like me, with powerful SS amps, enjoy the larger gauge wires.
Those who believe in skin effect for speaker cables would say there is a higher likelihood of hearing it with 10awg wire than with 16awg wire, even though both are stranded. 
Keep in mind, this wire is tinned, not discretely coated with epoxy, like Cardas wire.  IOW, the strands in this WE wire are electrically connected unlike Cardas wire where each strand is discrete.  Therefore, this wire is likely to behave more like a single large solid core wire than multiple 30awg wires.
I don't believe in skin effect for the short lengths of our speaker cables so IMO and FWIW, the difference is likely related to the amplifiers, power, and sonic characteristics of the speakers.  The 16awg wire may sound a touch quicker and slightly more "lit-up" while the 10awg wire may sound a little richer and fuller sounding, especially when used with high powered amplifiers.  An alternative is to braid or twist multiple 16awg and/or 14awg WE wires, which I have done with success in my system.

Jet - That is disappointing re: the 10 ga.  I bought some to try as SC and PC.  Have not done so yet.

I use different systems at different times. I currently have 2A3s set up and single wire, but bi-wire using much more powerful amps (SS or Hybrid) with the rest.

Did you try 16 ga on the high end and 10 ga on the low?

Regards