Has anyone used Vampire's twinaxial 22 gauge continuous cast bulk wire as a speaker wire? It certainly looks like iti might be vaguely similar to Audience AU24 speaker cable. Yes, no or am I totally nuts?
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Bixby
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Yeah, you are totally nuts
Kidding aside, I do not think the exact specs and construction details of AU24 speaker cables are known. It is not very similar to the Vampire twinaxial CCC you suggest. The continuous cast part and copper part is similar, but Vampire is solid core copper coated with enamel (like magnet wire).
AU24 speaker wire is somewhat shrouded in secrecy. I have never seen what gauge it is anywhere. It is also reported NOT to be solid core. I have seen references where people saw stranded copper wire wrapped around some kind of a core, likely polyethylene. The wire is also not enamel-coated like Vampire. It's supposed to have polypropylene insulation (aka rubber). It's also not clear whether they twist + and - or do something else.
All that aside the Vampire CCC copper wire is great cable. I have made both DIY interconnects and DIY semi-speaker cable (for my AKG K1000 earspeakers) with ~19AWG Vampire CCC wire, and I highly recommend them sonically. For speaker cable use, though, I prefer useing 2 runs of the 19 AWG wire PER leg, which sounds much better to me than one run. So I strongly suggest experimenting with more than one wire per leg to find the sound you want. IMO 22 AWG per leg is not going to cut it in the bass and dynamics department Unless you are running high-sensitivity systems.
