IC's interconnects and cabling.

[laatsch55]

Aluminum makes great chassis'......

 

[derek92994]

Aluminum makes great chassis'......

F&*#in AY! =)))))

 

[derek92994]

Hell yeah =)

 

[laatsch55]

Always go with the greater strand count...

 

[Fishoz]

Whoa...what's the wire on the right?

 

[laatsch55]

Electric locomotive cable and elevator cable is very fine strand. Some SJ cable also.....motot lead wire is also like that..

 

[laatsch55]

Ya ever do any welding Fish, welding cable looks like that also, that's what im guessing that is, or SJ....

 

[Nick Danger]

AK, All Audio, No Attitude

And AK is one of the nicer places.......

 

[NavLinear]

I enjoy AK - there are a number of posters there that are quite knowledgeable. It's just a "bit" more regulated then here.

So what's up with the higher strand count for speaker wire?

 

[laatsch55]

Less skin effect??

 

[NavLinear]

Less skin effect??

Shit - I don't know. I like wire but in my world (besides audio) it is well defined. This is a nebulous area of audio or so it seems to me. I was curious though...

 

[laatsch55]

For speaker wires I don't know if it makes an audible difference, but more strands mean less breakage....

 

[fitz43]

whatever works and you like is what it';s all about...

Amen!

 

[Lazarus Short]

For speaker wires I don't know if it makes an audible difference, but more strands mean less breakage....

I'm using solid-core to my Vandys right now, so I need to be careful?

 

[laatsch55]

I doubt it Laz, you don't move it a lot do you??

 

[Lazarus Short]

I doubt it Laz, you don't move it a lot do you??

It's thin, so yes, it gets kicked around. I scored two partial spools of 18-gauge stranded at an estate sale for peanuts, so I may be making another set of speaker wires. It all seems to work fairly well, but I'm careful to keep speaker wires away from power wires.

 

[gadget73]

I like the fine strand stuff because its flexible. The thinner the wire, the higher the resistance too so you get into maximum current carrying ability. More of a thing with high current amplifiers, and it can actually screw with the damping factor. Off the top of my head I can't spit the damping factor formula back at you but small amounts of resistance really will mess with it.

handily, lots of small gauge wire = one big gauge wire. Nice way to cheat if you need more current handling than the existing wire will handle, but don't have fatter wire on hand.

 

[tivali]

some may agree and some may not i myself run very short interconects 0.5 of a mater and use 3 meter silver coated speaker cable and i did see improvements in having shorter speaker cable but i dont think interconnects lenght matters unless u start going up to 1.5meters this mind is my point of view

 

[orange]

Less skin effect??

Wires are debatable, less skin effect is a mantra here.