Duelund conversion to DIY Helix Geometry Cabling

Hi guys, I have just received an email back from Stephanie at Parts Connexion that the 14AWG bare Connex solid Cu. wire is out of stock and that the business that supplies it has closed down !&^%#

Any ideas for a substitute?

I have 70 hrs play time on the 2 x 24AWG Ag / SOCT-18 interconnect which has amazing high frequency detail and brilliance (it's not really bright)  but it just sounds lightweight so I am considering adding a single 20AWG solid Ag to each, resulting in about 17.5AWG   Any thoughts?

The earlier made CCC interconnect by comparison sounds weightier and easier to listen to but seems to lack the inner glow of the Silver.

I would wait after the 400 hours burn-in mark before making any fine tuning to the design.

Yes, I agree. At the price of silver wire I will not be making premature decisions. The first helix I built was with PC Triple C Cu. which I left in its insulation and has had now about 220 hrs. It appears to have stabilised but will not disturb it for now. It will be relatively easy to remove the signal wire, remove its insulation and place each wire in a PTFE tube and listen again.

I have for some time suffered from an upper mid-range glare. Female vocals were mostly unlistenable. The CCC calmed that down to the point that we were able to listen to music that we once avoded.  As previously mentioned I can now listen to more of my files which IMO is a huge win.

The extra sparkle from the OCC Ag. is attractive and for my system may require  combining a strand of CCC which is 19AWG Cu. with the 2 x 24AWG Ag. though I don't know yet how Cu. and Ag. in parallel will behave.

@lemonhaze - I would NOT recomemnd mixing copper and silver wires for a single signal conductor - the speed of transmission of the two metals is different and the resolution/clarity will suffer

Adding the 20 gauge Ag to the 2 x 24 Ag wires is a much better idea provided the quality of silver of the three wires is identical

Regards - Steve

@lemonhaze Thank You for your continued description on the perception of the CCC Wire.

I have the perception that CCC Wire as a standard Cable configuration cleans up the presentation in a improved manner over a OCC Wire as standard cable configuration.

When compared as a DIN>RCA Phono Cable the CCC Wire Cable Superseded a OCC Silver Wire Cable, the CCC was perceived as the wire that offered a preferred balance across the frequencies, notes and vocals were delivered with a improved substance to their envelope and was certainly the least smearing of the Details/Micro Details.

I would suggest that the two cables can be compared at intervals, after experiencing extended use of the wire types being used.    

My HiFi System is nearly all in storage at present, which results in my delay to produce the Helix Cable Design.

I have now offered a friend a selection of collected Wire to build the Helix Design for themselves.

In my cache of Wire, there is a Stranded PC Triple C/EX which has a forged CCC Silver Coating on the Copper Core Wire. 

This is one I was going to strip down to the strands and attempt to make a Tonearm Internal Wand Wire.