@ eugeniy - RE: " how far were the hot and neutral wires?"
I think you are referring to
Both cables had the coils in place, but not connected and were 1-2" apart.
However, after trying the Air adaption (i.e. bare wire inside Teflon tube) on a few cables I now suspect that the proximity effect may have more to do with the insulation being used, than the issue of induction between wires.
It may be that having an air gap between the wire and the Teflon tube is enough of a gap, such that the two conductors can now be inserted into an expandable sleeve, side by side, without impacting sound quality, but I am yet to try this
I think that you can provide even more "spacing" by inserting each twisted pair conductor inside its own cotton sleeve.
This could make the Helix coil redundant, if this is the case.
It would certainly make fabrication so much easier with the advantage that the cable will now work with those amps that employ a symmetrical balanced design as well.
What about the rest of the Helix cables - can this approach be applied to Interconnects and power cables?
- It probably could, but I think using this new approach you would end up with a thicker and much stiffer cable.
And while it works for speaker cables,
The saga continues :-)
BTW - the support from everyone in this thread is greatly appreciated and is inspiration for the continued developments.
Regards - Steve
I think you are referring to
One other thing I tried was using the 2 x 14 gauge wires as the neutral conductor (but NOT coiled)To try this I used two sets of Helix speaker cables, but I did not connect the helix coils - I just used signal wire in one cable for the +ve and the signal wire in the other cable for the -ve
Both cables had the coils in place, but not connected and were 1-2" apart.
However, after trying the Air adaption (i.e. bare wire inside Teflon tube) on a few cables I now suspect that the proximity effect may have more to do with the insulation being used, than the issue of induction between wires.
It may be that having an air gap between the wire and the Teflon tube is enough of a gap, such that the two conductors can now be inserted into an expandable sleeve, side by side, without impacting sound quality, but I am yet to try this
I think that you can provide even more "spacing" by inserting each twisted pair conductor inside its own cotton sleeve.
This could make the Helix coil redundant, if this is the case.
It would certainly make fabrication so much easier with the advantage that the cable will now work with those amps that employ a symmetrical balanced design as well.
What about the rest of the Helix cables - can this approach be applied to Interconnects and power cables?
- It probably could, but I think using this new approach you would end up with a thicker and much stiffer cable.
And while it works for speaker cables,
- power cables might not work as well because of the higher voltage
- And a thicker interconnect cable might make installing the RCA problematic
- this revealed more details, faster dynamics, but I felt the resulting sound was too "analytical" and overly "crisp" for my own personal taste.Not everything in this particular scenario was "equal"
- one cable used a 2 x 16 gauge twisted pair inside a teflon tube (i.e. for the signal wire)
- the other use 2 x 14 gauge with each wire inside it’s own teflon tube (i.e. for the neutral wire)
- this may have accounted for my observation
The saga continues :-)
BTW - the support from everyone in this thread is greatly appreciated and is inspiration for the continued developments.
Regards - Steve