Granny ring, Jetrexpro, all


Are any of you building power cords with the Western Electric WE16ga? I see that a bunch of fellas on the Jeff Day Blog are making them with very good success. Day has also made some and it seems he may install on his
Mac MC30s. How about it? Any updates? Best, Rob
mikirob
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

Rob, Thanks for the update on the success of your WE power cables. If this 10ga doesn't work out as speaker cable I may build power cables with it.

Maxima95, I have not tried 16ga on the tweeter and 10ga on the woofer. What kind of speakers are you using with your 2a3 amp? Are you using 16ga WE speaker cable with it?

Mitch2, I was thinking about what I might be doing wrong that could be creating the bloated sound of the 10ga WE wire. One thought I had was to borrow my friend's solder pot and dip the amp end of the 10ga wire into it which would assure that my transformer wire is in good contact with the wire...although this might have the opposite affect. My Soldering gun is not hot enough to solder 10ga wire.  A solder pot will definitely do the job. Another thought I had was to try a single run of 10ga instead of bi-wire.

These are all food for thought and I have no idea how any of this will work and to tell the truth I am in love with the sound of my system and have little motivation to try new things these days. The C3m driver tubes and Audio Note Kaisei capacitors I am using in my 300b amp are singing and for my taste in sound, don't want to alter too much from what I have. But having said that I am curious about 10ga WE wire. Regards and thank you to all - Jet.

Jetrexpro,
It is a wonderful happening when you get to your state of satisfaction with an audio system. I'm there with my second/office system. After changing out the stock capacitors for Arizona Green/NOS stock Mallory capacitors and select Ohmite Brown Devil resistors plus WE wire all suggested by Yazaki-san and replacing all the stock tubes, Oyaide wall outlets and plate I believe I am done, save for experimenting with the Synergistic Red or Black fuse. Then
the only other temptation is to up the ante and acquire new speakers? But that will require a much larger amount of cash to top what the Tekton's do. I find a lot of satisfaction in putting together killer second system that compares or beats much of the high price stuff. This particular set-up I have does that. Best, Rob