DIY Helix Geometry Cabling

@nightlyfly - sorry not to reply to your PM, but that feature requires a credit card number and I do not enter that into any app, so I have to respond via this thread.

Your question...

Hi Steve
I am preparing the Helix cables, I use copper / teflon, do you want to describe the differences using the bare cable vs the teflon coated cable, I am using Neotech cables.

Without getting into the technical aspects, I noticed a significant improvement in clarity, articulation & dexterity, very fine details, like the echoes and reverberation of the venue and a new, larger 3D image . Live albums exhibit a more realistic reproduction beyond anything I had heard. It puts you in the venue

It’s difficult to attribute which cables provide those benefits because all of my cables were Helix, and as I developed a new approach I changed all of the cables to that approach.

I guess the big difference with the power cables was the 3D nature of the image

Hope that helps, steve

@raf90 - apologies for my delay in answering your posts.

Unfortunately, I have taken the web site down due to the expense of hosting.

But the first post of this thread contains new links to pdf files that shows how to build them.

Regards

Thanks much @pindac for referring this thread.

@williewonka looks everything extremely interesting.

For speaker cables:

- Why would you prefer a stranded neutral over solid core?

- Do you have a picture of a final speaker cable with two twisted signal wires and one neutral helix around it? I am wondering about the spacing of the helix

- I need a 22' and 14' run. First whats your experience with pairs which are not the same length and more important, Mapleshade uses a parallel geometry for longer runs, what is your experience with long runs?

Also, still could not find a source for PC triple C wire....

@total111 - the answers to your question...

• i preferred the sound of the silver plated stranded copper for speaker cables. Using OCC as the neutral sounded too clinical
• 20 and 14 ft is too long for the Helix design. I did make a 12ft cable once
• You can run the conductors in parallel, but keep them spaced about 10mm apart. To accomplish that you could sandwich the two wires between two pièces of brown paper parcel tape.

Using cables of different length normally impacts image and clarity.

• This is generally due to the impact of the capacitance of the insulation.
• If you adopt the "AIR" design of placing à bare solid  wire inside the teflon tube, for both signal and neutral, then because the wire has very little contact with the tube, there is very little capacitance, so the two cables should produce very good results

Hope that helps