Cable Teaser - The King of Tinned Copper

Folsom

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6awg from me vs common 12awg.

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This is part of the cable set I'm going to make available. It requires a special treatment to make it viable for assembly. I've come to appreciate the wisdom of using tinned copper for its virtues on sound. It's not "exotic" per-se but it most certainly is in another sense when it's made like this, to this quality. Not all cables are the same just because they read to be similar by name or spec. Even the measurements don't always give us true clues. For example I can measure some DDK recommended interconnects that have darn near the same measurement as another cable (we're talking 98%) and they don't sound the same to me as the other one or even close (I cant even hand trim them to be closer in measurement but still not the same).

For me I prefer the sound here, for a natural sound that isn't inhibited or drawing attention to itself. What I've been making has been preferable to the legendary RS interconnects, as I think they are more open, sort of like missing a glaze - "add nothing, take nothing" is certainly the approach.
 
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Tang,

It's certainly at least the size of a curtain rope. But no, it's not rope, it's copper.
 

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Tang,

It's certainly at least the size of a curtain rope. But no, it's not rope, it's copper.
Is your interconnect the same as your speaker cable. How different if any.
 

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Is your interconnect the same as your speaker cable. How different if any.

Yes, they're 6awg also. I'm looking into complimentary 20lb stainless steel weights with adjustable legs to reach between tubes so that your amplifiers don't tip over. :p



They're actually 28awg, but comprised of the same materials. However they don't run parallel per channel like the speaker cables; they're in the same sheath so each channel is single cable.

I may look into a high capacitance version to be more like some vintage favored cables. They have a beautiful articulation but they take dynamics to a perceivable but not true to album place - they can be useful for forward sounding stereos that are too much as they also hope homogenize the sound a little. They sort of make a stereo sound a bit more like the Denon all-in-one that sounds better than many high end amps (I had to try one since David talks about them).
 
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Folsom,

Hi, I’m a new member. You’re making these available. How could I order?
thx
 

Lagonda

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Folsom, did you just start a new profile ? ;)
 
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Rob181

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Hi Folsom - would you please PM me your cable details as well - thanks...
 

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