Grounding cable gauge size

gavman,

Thank you. As I stated early on in this thread, I still cannot understand what makes the grounding wires so expensive. I am using mostly solid .9999 silver 16-18 ga wire on my DIY boxes, but I do have 2 sets of the Entreq Atlantis cables on the Entreq box. And they are better than my solid silver wires. At least on the Entreq box.

ozzy

So if you had a cathodic metal like silver on the outside of the box the voltage would want to flow back out if the inside had aluminum plates in a conductive medium inside. So this does not make sense from a galvanic circuit. 

Can't we just cut somebody's Entreq in two and we'll have our answers!

I have seen the insides of some of the Entreq units and it mostly looks like the insides of my DIY version. Only mine looks better...

ozzy

interesting - what type of construction are they?

Physically massive. Material varies from cable to cable. Some copper, some silver

From Tripoint’s home page, scroll down to subsection grounding cables, you can see the different materials used in respective cables

https://tripointaudio.us/tripoint-products

Dalby Celestial

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Lee keeps his exact recipe close to his chest, much like Per Oloff of Entreq☺

This is from the Tripoint page. It refers to the one above entry level, out of four.

SIGNATURE SILVER: Pure silver cable with Oyaide spades. Signature Silver Sonic Signature: quiet, silky smooth high frequencies.