Has anybody tried using single solid core cables?
My question before I ditch my multi-stranded Audioquest Indigo cables in favor of 4 individual single solid core 18 gauge cobber cables from Home Depot for my newly acquired SA Mantra 50s, has anyone tried using single solid core wires? The AQ Indigo+ is solid core construction. http://www.audioquest.com/archives/ Speaker cables >> Spiraled Hyperlitz >> Indigo+ . |
Another + for the Clear Day Double Shotgun speaker cables. . |
Jea48, am I missing something here? The Indigo diagram at the link youLook at the AQ Link again. Each of the solid core wires are individually insulated. If stranded each group of + and would be bare wires with only a covering of insulation over each group. The equivalent wire size for the Indigo cable is 12 ga. As for the OP feeding his speakers with only one solid core #18 ga wire for each + and - terminal I would not think that would work too well for the sound of the speakers or for the amp. I will leave the technical why nots to Almarg and Kijanki. SA Mantra 50 speakers. This might explain their description of Indigo as being stranded.Could you please point out where AQ says the Indigo uses stranded wire. I suggest you reread Kijanki post again. What he says is basically what Bill Low of AQ has been saying for years. AQ cable theory http://www.audioquest.com/pdfs/aq_cable_theory.pdf . |
Re the Indigo cable and the solid/stranded question, while a case could be made for referring to it as solid core, IMO (based on what I perceive to be the most common usages of the terms) cables employing any form of Litz construction (i.e., a single overall conductor consisting of a group of individually insulated conductors) should not be referred to as either solid core or stranded. It's simply a different animal than what both terms are generally used to refer to.Al, I have to disagree with you on this one. I see a difference between a conductor made up of several bare wires that are in direct contact with one another covered by a single insulation covering to that of several insulated solid core wires grouped together under a common jacket. Here is an example of a stranded wire conductor made up of several solid core bare wires covered by an insulation covering making up a single conductor. (Example, look at the 500 awg conductor. It is made up of 37 #12 awg bare solid core wires.) Here is a 4 pair CAT6 data cable made up of 8 insulated #23 awg solid core wires. If we were to connect all the bared copper ends together at each end we would now have a single conductor made up of 8 individually insulated #23 awg solid core wires. If you go to the Audioquest and look at the DRAGON speaker cable you will see it is made up of 14 insulated solid core FPS silver conductors. 2) #21 awg Polyethylene insulated wires. 2) #21 awg Carbon Loaded Polyethylene insulated wires. 2) #19 awg Polyethylene insulated wires. 2) #19 awg Carbon Loaded Polyethylene insulated wires. 3) #17 awg Polyethylene insulated wires. 3) #17 awg Carbon Loaded Polyethylene insulated wires. I see the raw cable as a 14 conductor multi wire cable. Jim |
Innocent question: are the Anti Cables directional, I.e., do they come with arrows indicating direction of signal?Innocent question??? . They appear to be. http://anticables.com/speaker-wires/2-channel#!/~/product/category=3449817&id=14618506 . |
