Duelund DCA16GA

My 12GA took over 100 hours before they sounded good.

Yep it takes about 100 hours. 12 gauge a tad longer and 16 gauge you are all but there after 75 hours. But they never sound as bad as I read in his statement... never. Especially the ICs made with the 16 gauge. Wonder how they were built? Soldered professionally etc..... Did he shield them? If so, that will dull them. Something is amiss. This conductor does not go from awful and unlistenable to the best I have ever heard during break in. Just not what this wire does. It may be the connectors? Soldering job? How were they constructed? Need to know more about the system also.

In the end no wire or piece of gear will please everyone for a myriad of good reasons. But I have not heard of the Duelund stranded and tinned wire in cotton being so bad it was unlistenable and worse than cheap zip cord in essence. The Aphile world is always full of surprises!

So I found out the issue, before I only had my speaker wires and one pair of IC done. 

The duelund were revealing enough to show the weakness in my other wires, since then i've replaced everything with the duelund and I am impressed. They have defiantly moved my system forward, similar but not as significant as when I replaced all the caps in my speakers. 

Thanks for the update. Your crossover caps can take 300 hours to settle in depending on the type.  Large paper in oil/wax types can take up to 500 hours and the road is bumpy! Great you are improving your rig with DIY skills! Great satisfaction and sonic gain for reasonable money. Well done! 

Hi to all, recently did buy 20 meters of dca16ga from PCX and I did a pair of RCA interconnect and is true what you tell us about kindness of this cable.

Very organic, realistic, open, from midle to up, from bottom is a bit weak yet, may be rolling need.

I just wondering if any of you have used this DCA to patch signal amp.

It's possible?

My best.