[barrows]

I went ahead and replaced the skinny stock input wiring for the SMPS 600s with 15.5 AWG Cardas litz.  These are direct soldered into the boards, and to the IEC connector.  It does seem that the result is better slam, and more body/bass weight at higher volume levels.  The stock 18 gauge wire and relatively weak connector always "bothered" me…  I certainly feel this was worth the effort.

[dBe]

The reason for twisting them in the opposite direction is . . . . Or you are pulling our legs ?

Simple physics/electronics/RF practice with small returns.  You are there.  It is easy to do.  Why not do it?

Dave

[cab]

I replaced the input and power wiring from hypex with occ silver served with cotton. The input wiring is an 8 conductor helical weave. I also used dual 16 ga occ silver wire served with cotton for the speaker wire leads. Sounds good to me.....

[emailtim]

Ric

The biggest imporovement you can do to this build would be to follow Bruno's very important directions per his data sheet. 

Section 7.1

Kimber Cable is big on braiding over twisting. 

Would braiding be better than twisting (including the multi-wire harnesses)???

TIA

[Julf]

Would braiding be better than twisting (including the multi-wire harnesses)???

Braiding tends not to be as compact as twisting. You want to minimize the space between the wires.

Twisting is used to minimize interference and stray fields. Braiding is used to minimize skin effect (in litz wire etc.) mainly to improve transmission of high (but not too high) frequencies - not an issue with things like power connections.

 

[cab]

Braiding tends not to be as compact as twisting. You want to minimize the space between the wires.

DEpends on the braid geometry. Some can be compact.

[Julf]

DEpends on the braid geometry. Some can be compact.

Sure - but what is the supposed benefit of braiding in this case?

[cab]

same as twisting.....had a bunch of 28 gauge occ wire so I used an 8 conductor braid. Didn't think the 28 gauge was enough to simply use one conductor for each signal.

[Julf]

same as twisting.....had a bunch of 28 gauge occ wire so I used an 8 conductor braid. Didn't think the 28 gauge was enough to simply use one conductor for each signal.

Fair enough - but braiding is not as efficient as twisting in preventing EMF pickup/radiation. The whole idea of twisting is balancing two cables so that they have exactly the same twist and are as close together as possible, so that they balance out each other. With the 8 conductor bunch, you would probably be better off with twisting them in pairs.