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Don, My theory: You live in the north somewhere, perhaps Minnesota? If so, my guess is that the wire was transformed from plain old lawnmower wire to audio grade cable via cryogenic treatment sitting in your garage over winter. Am I right, or what, eh?
I thought I should share you my experience I had with a pair of DIY Speaker Cable projectI have been up to for the past month. Being retired I am always on a tight budget andtry to find ways to stretch this Audiophile on a meager means to still enjoy SET Sound without breaking the bank. I use to have an electric lawn mower with this long bright 100 foot orange extension cordtrailing behind me as I mowed. Well I gave that up went to all gas and now the thought occurredTo me : Lets see what I can do making this into a speaker cable. So I cut into it and had one run on each side and the midrange reproduction on these was very musical and nice. So I thought lets shotgun a pair together like the days of the old Mit 750 Shotgun and see what happens. I did and the soundstage started to open up along with top end transparency. Well I kept working on the cables until I finally came to the magicNumber of 5 runs per speaker cable which made the cable almost 2 inches in diameter with 126 standsOf copper wire on the negative terminal and 260 strands of copper wire on the positive terminal. This extension cord is 16 gauge 3 wire for one cable. Well I have 5 together. I wonder if that makes it a 4 or 2 gauge LOL. I have the black wire all tied together for the negative terminal and the green and white wire twisted together for the positive terminal. When I finally finished the one problem I encountered was the weight on the terminal ends. ITS HEAVY. I BOUGHT some Radio Shack banana plugs for 12 gauge wire and this did help some. I was able to pull my neg. wires through the plug okay, but the positive wire only partially through. So I will need to get some shrink wrap and finish this up that way.I also covered the bright ugly orange with black duck tape so as to create less of an eye sore and will be trying to hunt down some teflex big enough to go over these monstrous cables. Well how do they sound? WOWWOWWOW!!!I can hear way way back into the soundstage and all and every instrument is heard and played in utter transparency. Even small acoustic instruments can be tracked very easily and I was able to hear talking of the artist after a take as well since some recording engineers did not fade the music out all the way at the end of a take. You can hear the acoustic space of every recording so cleanly and clearly along with the air in the space and the decay of each note is conveyed clear as a bell. Even triangle sounds can be heard nicely.Talk about an upgrade. IMO this cable in my system sounds like a 2 to 3K pair of speaker cables that I only paid about for $25..00 for the 100 foot extension cord and about $32.00 for 2 sets of banana plugs. All instruments sound natural and lifelike with plenty of body. I am just in utter amazement at what I accidentally discovered with this cable and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible for everyoneTo try this out for themselves and reap the benefits I found on my own.Now I did not use any special metals, gold, i.e. cryo, or internal lead shot, magnets, or special cottons or silver, or internal water to dampen things out or 20k speaker interface boxes. JUST A 100 FOOT BRIGHT ORANGE EXTENSION CABLE FOR $25.00Any thoughts or comments would be appreciatedDon C.
I remember reading about stereo shows where Japanese manufacturers, especially showing up their SET amplifiers had them wired with speaker "hoses" that were extremely heavy. They said the sound was fantastic, perhaps they had their own version of the cable you have discovered. Anyway, excellent ideas. Showing some pics would really get some people excited. The only thing close to what you are talking about is a run of orange extension cables I got from the Depot and was in the process of wrapping teflon tape over it. It was a tricky adventure handling the plumber's teflon tape, so I left them as it is. To my ears, these cables have nothing lacking in comparison to commercial cables I have heard, of course, I have not heard cables in my system that go beyond $400....I did hear more expensive cables in someone else's ubber system. Paul
I have the black wire all tied together for the negative terminal and the green and white wire twisted together for the positive terminal.