I’ve had a few hours with it - occasionally I get a jazz track - what I listen to mostly - come on, and I experience an elevated level of clarity, bass and stage depth. And for those who experiment with cables might know what I am referring to by that 10-15% bump in improvement, I think that’s what I achieved here..
The old wires, I should have posted a picture of the conductor, I’ve ripped the same cable out of old kenwoods, it’s a stranded twisted and tinned conductor with a nerve core in the center - I know this wire, I’ve replaced it elsewhere too, only with OCC to get a similar improvement.
Interesting side part of the story, I noticed a main filter cap leg not soldered on the main board - totally missed by the assembly! I’ve seen a lot, that was a first for me. The leg was snipped, but no solder.
The furutech connectors worked out, but if you see from my pics, it was tight. I also realized that if I continue to do this kind of thing, getting a quality desoldering solution would be so very helpful, pumps just lack.
I also wouldn’t have minded some of that deoxit gold brush on stuff for the modules - both gold plated fingers, and board pads - maybe even the faston tabs too on the binding posts.
We were kidding speaking about coat hangers, funny enough the feel of the Mundorf wire was like a silver PTFE coated coat hanger, it was easy and nice to bend into shape, the 15.5AWG/1.5mm fit perfectly into the eyelets, and finished with Mundorf Supreme solder.
A part of me wanted to do the caps too, but I’m sure they have a few more years on them..
