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Yes, I have the same 14g WE wire in a couple of PCs I built many years ago. Much better than regular TPC wire, a bit on the romantic side but very good value wire. UPOCC is better but more $... if you don't mind soldering I'd solder your WE wire directly to the binding posts and driver terminals. I'd consider binding posts as well. Louis sells Supra posts which are a great value, Furutech posts are amazing but a lot of cash. I have Pomonas on mine and while they are very good the Supras are probably a better bet as they are more robust. Both are telurium copper afaik, which is a big step up from regular brass posts. Peter, those BJC bananas are a big 'ol chunk of brass, I'd reconsider...
Oops. Sorry Rebbi. Did not mean to take your thread off topic
My speakers have bottom ports and I use the nerf balls in them. I soldered the WE16 directly to the drivers and threaded the wire out the port to the amp. No need for the binding posts and I use bare wire at the amp. I do not disconnect very often and have a hard time imagining what I would replace the Omegas with My Saber based DAC is a bit incisive so these cables work great with that romance...
No problem, Doggie. Topic Drift is a part of life on the forums.
When I start a thread and it takes off, even a different direction, I take it as a compliment since it stimulated something! ......Peter
Good info Dave. I'll take a look at the products you've listed and reconsider.I've always been skeptical of Rhodium since it is pretty far down the conductivity list of metals. But if extremely thin plating isn't an issue, then I guess it doesn't matter. If it does matter, than 24K plated copper seems optimal as gold is just under silver and copper, both of which oxidize and/or are too soft alone........Peter
That would seem to be true but maybe not in every case... It's difficult to plate gold directly on copper so it almost always has a layer of nickle between the gold and the copper. Rhodium isn't as conductive as gold but it ends up sounding more neutral when used to plate copper. Rhodium plated on copper alloys (brass, bronze) can be harsher, here it's better to use gold to smooth out the grain from the copper alloy. It doesn't make a huge difference on speaker cable connectors but it does with interconnects and power cables. Rhodium is also more durable, gold plating can wear off over time. I built my SET amp around 10 years ago and use gold plated copper Vampire RCA jacks, the gold plating on the jacks is now wearing thin...doggie, that will work great. The nice thing about tinned wire is it won't corrode like plain copper.
After all of this, I'm realizing that I should probably just go with bare wire. I don't connect/disconnect much anymore between amp and speakers, so I don't really need the convenience. That seems to me to be the purest connection.Now, RCA interconnects are a different story!.......Peter
Interesting, the Supra isn't litz wire, it's tinned/stranded OFC copper like the WE wire:"The SUPRA Classic Cable comprises highly flexible cables containing tin plated multi-stranded OFC copper of purity degree 5N, which means> 99.999% pure, i.e. purer than five nines. The insulation is a special ion stable PVC which minimizes corrosion of the sonically benign tin surface. The tin contributes to a better sound quality by minimizing the skin-effect and making less current jumps between the wire surfaces."Tin has far less conductivity vs copper so the tinning encourages the electrons to stay in the strand rather than jump from strand to strand, which causes grain. Litz wire does this by insulating each individual strand, also by braiding the wire so there are no inner or outer strands, every strand shares the same position in the wire bundle. But tinning litz wire is pretty annoying. I had to check because it would be bad to use litz wire without tinning the ends properly... The tin plated wire is also nice because tin does not really corrode, while copper does. But with either one it might be a good idea to get some Caig progold to treat the connection. It's expensive but a small bottle will last forever.
I first discovered the Supra Classic 6.0 speaker cable in an interesting way. The late Bobby Palkovich – who just passed away near the end of August – always used to recommend very, very expensive Cardas speaker cable for use with his Merlin Speakers. I had a pair of his TSM monitors and there was no way I could afford those recommended cables. So I asked him for the physical characteristics of what would make a good speaker wire for his speakers and he gave me those parameters. I searched all over the Internet and eventually stumbled upon the Supra Classic 6.0. It is unbelievably cheap for what it is, at least compared to other high-end speaker cables. (Supra also makes some very pricey stuff.) So I brought the Classic 6.0 to Bobby's attention and he ordered some samples. He later told me that the Classic 6.0 was "stupid good" for the price – which was Bobby's highest compliment when it came to audio equipment. And it became Bobby's go-to recommendation for a "bargain" cable. It's interesting to me that Louis uses Supra cable in his speakers. Must be good stuff!
So, what now, rebbi? Are you (still) happy with the purchase after the break-in?
Rebbi,See here first. http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=134577.0Try this, and maybe save the rice for sushi. My Skylan stands internally rubber damped and with Q-bricks is where I'm at now and have been for months. The bass is tight, tuneful, and so integrated with the music. Imaging width and depth, and instrument separation are such that the whole system just disappears.
