[Delta Wave]

I just re-wired my vintage B&W DM7MkII's. Wow, what a difference! The internals were all cheesy aluminum cables w/ spring-type wire terminals. I used wire that matched my speaker cables exactly, same brand/type. For the Molex connector to the crossover, I used WBT silver solder and gold Molex inserts... all soldered. The original harness was all just aluminum crimped inserts. Updated with some nice Cardas copper binding posts & custom fabricated plates. Some plasti-clay in some cabinet holes & voids and to keep wires from vibrating on any internals.

The bass is noticeably faster, more accurate and fuller. I did one speaker first just to compare. Everything is tighter and more focused. An amazing improvement for less than $100 in materials for an already great speaker.

I don't understand how some folks will spend $$$ on cabling only to be bottle-necked just past the connector in the actual component. Especially high $$$ power cables... there's usually that poor connection at the fuse. 

Anyone else out there have experience with a project like this, good or bad?

[Letitroll98]

No, but I've always wanted to.  I have the perfect opportunity with a pair of Snell Type E series IV that need a new woofer in one, might as well gut the wiring as well.  I understand when Kevin Volks re-voiced the speaker for the Series IV he improved the internal wiring, but still worth a go.   

[some young guy]

I once re-wired a pair of Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mkIIs with solid core silver in Teflon tubing with excellent results. I was blown away when I opened those cabinets to find green (fully oxidated copper) stranded wired inside.

In recent years, I've been playing around with some "special" DNM wire that a friend gave to me. So far I've used it for all my cabling (eccept A/C), one section at a time, as well as the jumpers for my Totems. Every time I use more, the vails are lifted again... truly amazing what better wire can do.

[aln]

Another idea is to use the Mapleshade speaker wire.  I use this from the amplifier to the drivers.  It is thin, easy to solder and pliable.  And it sounds good.  You can pick up a 8 foot pair on audiogon cheap and redo an entire enclosure.

Just be sure to use the same wire throughout the speaker. 

Regards
ALN