Gooberdude
is the tiniest wire attached to the larger wire on the anti-s?
if not then one wire is clearly longer than the other, correct?
there are places that sell 2 enameled wires already bonded together, is this what they are?
is the signal wire the slinky looking thing?
I did a slinky wire just to protect my 30ga signal wire but it was not hooked up?
it also seems the anti silver ICs are magwire also, are they silver platted copper?
I have looked high and low for silver mag wire and come up empty handed so far.
anyway I am down for making magwire ICs, my first pair done are 18ga. return and 30ga. signal and are strait using no particular geometry. sound very good beat the hell out of pricey PS Audios- down right embaressed em IMS. shockingly better
I can not back this up with science, not that type of guy- I can tell you my twist on it after spending contless hours studying up on types of mag wire and many DIY cables, and commerical ones even non mag.
It seems to me both Mapleshade and Anti-cable at different times discovered what some others at some point already knew - that magnet wire having a very thin coating vs. thicker rubber teflon whatever has some serious sound advantages probably just thru listening to them. My conjecture is mag has ultra thin jacket all most all other wires reqiure thicker jackets, possibly increasing the dielectric effect. anyway mag sounds good Paul and Mapleshade are more than aware of it.
I my self had planned numerous variations on my DIY ICs but have found similar and even larger improvements treating my listening room, the desire to improve my cable is on the back burner. Its just a guess but you may even create one more to your liking than the anti by accident, mine has a 18ga return cause I needed to support the 30ga signal wire evidently there are ones with larger singnal than return.
if you cann't dupe the antis and want a good cable, without getting all anal about trying 10 diff styles. I would definitly use a small signal wire ( I have read far to many times its advantages and am convinced enough for me on this part) I have seen far to many of the top dog ICs do exactly this, some single some multiple a-la Audio Quest. See the homebrew 20. killer IC article thats what tiped me off to these thoughts, I feel he mistakenly put his mag wire in packing tape therefore increasing its dielectric.
it seems to me based on research of others products a few general rules of thumb (not gosple but pretty reliable)
1- the dielectric used always degrades the sound, some more some less, nothing is best- but not possible
2-quality of the wire is important but not as much as the above (silver in crappy di is not goona beat copper in excent di- the dielectric is the main culprate of bad sound. also for many standed wire is considered very poor. this does not mean eqnore quality mag is excellent its usually soft annealed wire.
3- geometry affects the sound, have no clue whats better, I think I understand twisted wires do regect more emi-rfi noise. I know many who have anti SC think twisting the cable makes it smoother and a little more extended.
4- better RCAs improved the sound of mine but not nearly as much as i would have thought. To maximise I am definitly gonna use copper bullets.
lastly to note Chris VH has a new silver IC that uses cotton sleeving as a dielectric cause its about the lowest number you can get. Now magwire comes in about 10 different coatings, alittle confusing have no idea what people are using my first one uses gp200, but I have now found a source for teflon enameled wire so that is my next move.
mag w teflon:
http://www.weicowire.com/magnetwireproductlist.htmif anyone is interested I bought 80. worth of magwire recently probably sell for 50. shipped
