Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables


All

I am looking for speaker cables with solid core and not stranded conductors.

I know about resin/DNM and Audioquest Type 4 and CV-8. What other alternatives are out there?

Cheers

T

total111

Solid state, but again super high efficiency speakers, so while the amps have plenty of reserves, typically I would stay within one watt....

DNM has two cables, one is ~16awg and one is ~18awg. Only one conductor. So 2x20awg could work .... however, as I have longer runs (20') the combination of a 18awg and a 20awg might be perfect....I'll will try and see...

The longer I am in this thread the more I realize that we all have always insufficient data and backgrounds to have a one-size fits all approach. Way to many differences in amps and speakers (including crossovers, which my speakers dont have). Hence in the end, with limited (by definition) experiments, I will be stuck with a few experiments around a star-quad config.

Cheers all. Fascinating how diverse the market is...thanks for all the input

 

@total111 Wrote:

Way to many differences in amps and speakers (including crossovers, which my speakers dont have). 

What speakers do you have?

Mike

Tocaro 40F (single driver, 98db sensitivity, 40watts at 8 ohm) and

Tocaro 50F (3 drivers, hence tri-amping, no crossover, 103dB sensitivity and 3x 40watt at 8ohm)

They are the informal heirs of the (in)famous Rehdeko, which in my mind where a stroke of genius.

The Tocaros are super fast, toe tapping galore and very resolving....

@total111 I have been down the route of Branded Cables and had a lot of experiences with a large Variety of brands.

Too many unsatisfactory audible end sounds was instrumental in prompting myself to look at things differently, which was to see which Wire Types were being used and which of these were receiving a lot of good reports on the impression made.

After a period of trying out Wire Only as a Speaker Cable, using a range of wires for comparative purposes. I ended up at very fair monies outlaid with what I will refer to as a Standard Copper - OFC - OCC with length produced as Stranded Wire and Solid Wire. The investigation got a little more costlier when Mapleshade Solid Wire was introduced.

Over a long period of time the Mapleshade proved to be the wire type I was to become most impressed with.

My not coming of the Gas, introduced me to other more modern concepts on Wire Production, where uber Production Companies such Furukawa and Mitsubishi   had ventured into producing Wires where they were not under a license to do so.

I ended up with both PC Triple C and D.U.C.C wire to try out and in the case of the PC Triple C, this was a stranded and solid wire being trialed.

Strictly limited to Speakers Only, the PC Triple C Solid Core has Superseded all other used Cables selected for this role.

In relation to wire Type for other Interfaces both PC Triple C and D.U.C.C have found a place of permanency.

As for PC Triple C, I have now experienced it in use as initially Cartridge Tag Wires, which evolved into it being used as a Tone Arm Wand Wire, Speaker Cables in a Variety of Systems as Stranded and Solid Core, Umbilical's, Power Cables, Internal Device Hook UP wire, Internal Wire on Speaker Cabinets. In some cases O have been able to hear it A/B compared to the earlier version without Triple C in use.

My introducing others to PC Triple C caused quite a large number of adopters of the wire over a not too extended period. This new group were the cause for the levy to break on where the wire type will be best used in a Audio System.

My experiencing Triple C in use across a range of placements has not yet showed up a positioning for it, where it has been felt the recollection of the earlier version has been the better option. 

 

  

Thanks much @pindac very interesting.

Where can you buy PC-Triple C wire?

Which AWG do you use? 

Do you use twisted pairs or star-quad or do you even "braid" twisted pairs or just single strands? (Mapleshade seems to use several designs..)