@divertiti - RE:
Personally for me, it poses too much of a problem inserting such a long wire into the teflon tube
The signal wire on my 9ft speaker cables took some effort inserting the wire
I would select a tube that is just a little bigger than a single strand fo bare wire
RE: -
Electrons have a propensity to stay within the physical boundary of each strand of wire and only "jumps" to another strand if the amount of energy being transferred exceeds the "capacity" of that strand (or a faster route to ground is provided).
The signal in Interconnects is "low energy" and using 2 x 18 gauge wire would probably result in very few electrons making the jump between the two strands.
For speaker and power cables I use a separate tube for each wire
For Interconnects I simply twist the wires together first and insert into a single tube. This allows for a little more "wiggle room" in order to to tighten the coil down around the signal wire in order to install the RCA housing without any difficulty.
But if I have to guess - having each wire in a separate tube would probably sound "MARGINALLY" better.
Hope that helps
Regards - Steve
One thing I’m unclear on is how to coil the 16ga neutral if it is being created using the air tube method? If the bare wire is free floating inside the tube, how do you coil it with the drill?I’ve never made and "Air" neutral.
Personally for me, it poses too much of a problem inserting such a long wire into the teflon tube
The signal wire on my 9ft speaker cables took some effort inserting the wire
- the wire needs to be as straight as possible
- the tube has to be held as straight as possible
- cut the wire 2-3 inched longer than the tube
- first tape the wire to the rod and then tape the tube to the rod
- then wind as normal
I would select a tube that is just a little bigger than a single strand fo bare wire
RE: -
has there been a consensus on which sounds better:
1. Putting two bare UPOCC conductors in a twisted pair inside a single PTFE tube
or
2. Insert each bare UPOCC conductor into its own PTFE tube first then twist the two tubed run into a twisted pair?
Electrons have a propensity to stay within the physical boundary of each strand of wire and only "jumps" to another strand if the amount of energy being transferred exceeds the "capacity" of that strand (or a faster route to ground is provided).
The signal in Interconnects is "low energy" and using 2 x 18 gauge wire would probably result in very few electrons making the jump between the two strands.
For speaker and power cables I use a separate tube for each wire
For Interconnects I simply twist the wires together first and insert into a single tube. This allows for a little more "wiggle room" in order to to tighten the coil down around the signal wire in order to install the RCA housing without any difficulty.
But if I have to guess - having each wire in a separate tube would probably sound "MARGINALLY" better.
Hope that helps
Regards - Steve