Duelund DCA16GA

Between 3/4 and 7/8.

And for what it's worth: Some months ago, I consulted privately with grannyring when I decided to try my (soldering)hand at making my own speaker cables and RCA interconnects. After purchasing tens of meters of Dueland 12g, 16g, and 20g, as well as host of banana plugs and rca connectors, I got to work. In the end, and after nearly every combination possible, I am thrilled with the following set up:

Dueland 12g, twisted with mesh sheathing to bare wire on both ends for speaker cables.

Dueland 20g, twisted with both a copper mesh as well s a cotton cover terminated to the KLEI Harmony connectors. I use them from SACD/DAC to the preamp, as well as from my turntable.

The 16g with my room and set up just sounded a bit too slow and constrained, when used for interconnects.I know that my results are completely subjective, but I will state that the sonics far eclipse what I had prior, which were the upper ranks from Audioquest.



Cheers, and happy listening!

Alex, 

I did and was picking up a bit of hum. So I unsoldered them and wrapped them in the copper and the hum is gone, but not any of the dynamics, which I feared would happen. Just the interconnects, not the speaker cables, mind you.

It was a fun project and much easier thanI thought, especially after I made some mistakes on the first pair.