@toddverrone - UPDATE...
Todd - I’ve built one of the cables with the conductors that I have identified above and I encountered some minor annoyances...
Construction...
I’ll let you know how they sound once I’ve installed the bananas (still in transit) and allowed some burn-in
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Todd - I’ve built one of the cables with the conductors that I have identified above and I encountered some minor annoyances...
Construction...
- - I used two layers of 1/4 inch shrink tube to protect the 16 gauge mil-spec signal wire and put some added "distance" between it and the neutral
- - Being a twisted conductor, the 20ft neutral (i.e. on a 10 ft signal wire) only allowed for one wrap every inch. I guess the 1/4" shrink tube required more neutral than I had anticipated I was looking for 2 winds every inch, but I do not believe it will impact the sound.
- - Once I had it tightly twisted around the dowel, I secured it at both ends and then warmed the wire with a hair dryer to make it more malleable and then rolled it with the palm of my hand on a flat surface to tighten the wrap and ensure there was minimal unrolling once the the tape securing the ends was removed - this is something you might not encounter to the same degree using two single conductors for the neutral
- I then left it for a couple of hours to settle
- I inserted the signal wire into the shrink tube, inserted that assembly into the helix coil and secured the ends of the neutral and signal with some dabs of hot glue and shrink wrap - it stops the neutral from unwrapping and sliding up and down the signal wire
I’ll let you know how they sound once I’ve installed the bananas (still in transit) and allowed some burn-in
Chat Later