Which wire for internal recabling my speakers?


Hi, after changing some resistors and caps with better quality once in my speakers Opera Gran Callas (see the relative post here

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/caps-for-crossover-upgrade-for-opera-grand-callas-loudspeakers)

I’ve decided to put crossover outside loudspeakers and to hang up it with rubber bands in order to decouple it from the floor.

To do that I have to recable with new internal wiring my loudspeakers, because original once are too short.

First of all I think of Neotech soct 12 and 14 awg (first for woofers and MIDs and the last for tweeters), it’s a pure occ copper solid core in teflon. It’s considered one of the best cables but.... I suspect it to be too analytical and on the dry side, without richness in harmonics.

On the other side once of the best cable, as for its reputation regarding richness, is the duelund DCA GA but... I suspect it could be not so extended on highs and bass, and that it could be on the flabby side, a bit too slow on the attacks, not reactive.

So I’d like to use a cable that has natural timbre, rich in harmonics but at the same time fast and powerful.

 

Anyone have experience with Jupiter wire? Especially with Jupiter 4n solid core cooper in cotton or with Jupiter copper tinned multistrand?

How Jupiter wire stands between above Neotech and Duelund wires?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

grunter

The Neotech 12 gauge solid core is fairly stiff and unwieldy. I'd stay at 14 or higher.

Could be ok with 18awg for tweeters, 14 for midrange (because also works at 200hz) and 12awg for woofers?

OCC single crystal wire is never dry and without richness but you shouldn't be using solid core for internal wiring you should use multi-stranded but OCC single crystal is definitely the best wire to use, 14 to 16 gauge. I use neotech OCC in my speakers when I rewired them and I got a 10 to 15% improvement right across the board.

The wire used in my loudspeakers is unbranded so I don't know where to buy, besides is not long enough to put crossover outside loudspeakers.

 

Interesting question

I bought a faulty pair of Proacs and looking inside the cables was pretty ordinary looking.

I asked my repair man about upgrading and he told me that the present cable was decent and any upgrade might not produce worthwhile results

 

So I kept the old cable in but still have no idea whether I missed an opportunity

 

Exactly which model numbers of Neotech are you talking about and what website sells it?