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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
Hi Bill, 
Are your PCs unshielded? Did you choose a synthetic  (teflon) or a natural fiber material for your dielectric?  
Thanks, 
Charles, 
Unshielded Charles using the NOS Western Electric 10 gauge stranded and tinned wire in cloth. I purchased some nice Neotech connectors on closeout at Sonic Craft and I am happy with the result. 
Hi Bill,
I appreciate your response. My Ocellia Silver Reference cables (IC&SC) are unshielded and use a natural material  (paper )dielectric  and I really like them.  I suspect that your power cables are very good sounding. I'm using the original Coincident power cables not their latest Statement power cable.
Charles, 
Hi Bill,
Can I ask did you use 2 or 4 of the WE10awg wires for your power cords?   If you used 4 wires per cord (2 for pos and 2 for neg), did you twist or braid them?

TWL braids 4 of the WE10awg wires for their highly-thought-of Seven Plus American Series power cable.

I went with the old VH Audio flavor-style of construction, by twisting four WE10awg wires and then cross-connecting two wires for positive and the other two for negative to reduce inductance (a good thing in speaker cables and in power cables).  I then counter-spiraled a THHN ground wire outside of the four conductors. The total aggregate wire size per pole is 7awg.  I used Furutech's  FI-11 (Cu) connectors, as does TWL, and I am quite happy with the result, particularly on my high-powered amplifiers.

If I were to make cords for my front-end components, I would probably start with a single twisted pair of the WE 10awg wires, include a tinned copper braid shield and then the ground wire counter-spiraled outside of the shield.

This wire is pretty good stuff both for power cables and speaker cables.  For speaker cables, I have heard better in the high frequencies but it certainly nails the midrange and I also like the bass where there is detail, richness and depth but less tendency toward boominess than I hear with some cables.