Duelund DCA16GA

I have two 6.5 inch woofers per speaker and prefer Duelund 12ga and Western Electric 10 ga over the Duelund 16 ga.  But, my runs are very long and I prefer a nice full bodied sound that has bloom and meat on the bones. The 12ga Duelund and 10 ga Western Electric have this in spades! 

I just finished making a set of Duelund quad core wound jumpers using 4 runs of the 16 gauge Duelund wire terminated with the excellent Furutech FP203G spades. I jumped from the bass posts up to the highs on my Dali Epicon 6s. I am very pleased with the initial sound. Very. The combined gauge is 10. 

As a rough rule of thumb, if you're braiding four strands of wire, what is the ratio of the length of the unbraided wire to what you end up with?  I.e. how much shorter is it?  1/2?  1/4?  Or?

Between 3/4 and 7/8.

And for what it's worth: Some months ago, I consulted privately with grannyring when I decided to try my (soldering)hand at making my own speaker cables and RCA interconnects. After purchasing tens of meters of Dueland 12g, 16g, and 20g, as well as host of banana plugs and rca connectors, I got to work. In the end, and after nearly every combination possible, I am thrilled with the following set up:

Dueland 12g, twisted with mesh sheathing to bare wire on both ends for speaker cables.

Dueland 20g, twisted with both a copper mesh as well s a cotton cover terminated to the KLEI Harmony connectors. I use them from SACD/DAC to the preamp, as well as from my turntable.

The 16g with my room and set up just sounded a bit too slow and constrained, when used for interconnects.I know that my results are completely subjective, but I will state that the sonics far eclipse what I had prior, which were the upper ranks from Audioquest.



Cheers, and happy listening!