I have been building my own wires for years. Of the dozen or so cables that I keep around. I find that OCC single crystal copper (both stranded and thin guage solid core) in combination with solid core silver are my favorite. No silver wire I have tried has the low level resolution of OCC copper. I have not tried OCC silver and have been tempted to do so. I have had various luck with alloy wires, but they tend to take the backseat.
DIY interconnects ... found MUCH success
I have spent the past few months making MANY different DIY interconnects and testing them in my system. I've spent probably $600 on materials from MANY different sources, and have spent countless hours listening and cataloguing the results. And I have came to this conclusion :
Jadem6 is mostly DEAD ON ! While this poor fellow gets ribbed heartily by many for his extensive and outlandish experiments in the DIY realm, I have a feeling he is probably getting the last laugh !
Let me cut to the chase : I did almost EVERY experiment while making my own interconnects that he did , and more ..... And the ONLY thing I did not do that he did, is experiment using pure gold connectors ... I simply could not justify affording gold.
However, I did use probably 10 different brands and sources of pure silver wire. I also tried EVERY wire gauge and wire combination possible ! Here is how it ended up shaking out:
Straight parallel runs of conductors spaced 3/4" apart do indeed sound the best of ALL possible combinations.
Three 30ga strands of silver for the positive conductor do indeed sound the best of ALL possible combinations.
One strand of 23ga silver for the negative run do indeed sound the best of ALL possible combinations.
Eichmann Gold bullets sounded best with silver ( I did try silver Eichmann RCAs with ALL of the different brands of silver wires, but found it made the sound a little to "white" sounding in my system, a traight silver is often known for. Gold seemed to give it that perfect warmth to blend perfect with the silver wires ).
Where JD and I differ is on the construction of the outer jacket of the cables: JD was trying to make the perfect cable that could also be SOLD and stand up to consumer usage. I was trying to make a perfect cable that I could use in MY system, and KNEW it would never be abused in any way.
Therefore when I ended up using a pure unbleached cotton weave material that is flat, I was finished. I sleeved the conductors in 2mm cotton sleeves, then threaded it through the cotton weave material at 3/4" intervals. Almost ZERO dialectric effect, and the spacing stays perfectly constant due to the weave being somewhat stiff.
I've never heard a better interconnect, and have owned the VERY BEST brands offerings, from Valhalla to Tara Labs.
So here's to Jadem6 .... You have the basics covered perfectly in my book !
Jadem6 is mostly DEAD ON ! While this poor fellow gets ribbed heartily by many for his extensive and outlandish experiments in the DIY realm, I have a feeling he is probably getting the last laugh !
Let me cut to the chase : I did almost EVERY experiment while making my own interconnects that he did , and more ..... And the ONLY thing I did not do that he did, is experiment using pure gold connectors ... I simply could not justify affording gold.
However, I did use probably 10 different brands and sources of pure silver wire. I also tried EVERY wire gauge and wire combination possible ! Here is how it ended up shaking out:
Straight parallel runs of conductors spaced 3/4" apart do indeed sound the best of ALL possible combinations.
Three 30ga strands of silver for the positive conductor do indeed sound the best of ALL possible combinations.
One strand of 23ga silver for the negative run do indeed sound the best of ALL possible combinations.
Eichmann Gold bullets sounded best with silver ( I did try silver Eichmann RCAs with ALL of the different brands of silver wires, but found it made the sound a little to "white" sounding in my system, a traight silver is often known for. Gold seemed to give it that perfect warmth to blend perfect with the silver wires ).
Where JD and I differ is on the construction of the outer jacket of the cables: JD was trying to make the perfect cable that could also be SOLD and stand up to consumer usage. I was trying to make a perfect cable that I could use in MY system, and KNEW it would never be abused in any way.
Therefore when I ended up using a pure unbleached cotton weave material that is flat, I was finished. I sleeved the conductors in 2mm cotton sleeves, then threaded it through the cotton weave material at 3/4" intervals. Almost ZERO dialectric effect, and the spacing stays perfectly constant due to the weave being somewhat stiff.
I've never heard a better interconnect, and have owned the VERY BEST brands offerings, from Valhalla to Tara Labs.
So here's to Jadem6 .... You have the basics covered perfectly in my book !
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