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In the Thread: We who are about to die... (a cable thread)
Post Subject: Hammers as the only solutionPosted by Bud on: 6/30/2008
Romy,

Try wrapping a copper wire around a power cable, then "inject" it into the power line through an isolation transformer. The wrapping only to help defeat the antenna event of other signal sources that only have one vector.

et all,

For cables, the most neutral cable available is a true Litz lay up, of insulated magnet winding wire. I use 140 strands of # 40 wire, twisted in a triple spinning loom, that weaves the individual strands from the inside to the outside of one of the lay up hanks, while twisting them in a spiral, within the tndividual hanks, that are also then twisted in a spiral.

This stuff can be used without any sheilding, as an interconnect, and even parallel power cords do not add an audible AC signal, even closely paralleled power cords. The sound of this Litz, in a woven cotton XXL shoe lace tube, is dead neutral and dead boring. Sounds like extremely detailed Brownian noise, no matter what is playing. This is a neutral reference if there is such a thing. Everything else has "color" added. Adding anything else to these cables adds colorful dynamics back. Too much of anything else added begins to slew the phase and smear the transients.

Same is true for using it for speaker cables. Island Pink has a full set of this stuff, IC's and speaker cables, and equates it with a single strand of wire in a teflon tube, but shlightly better in all cases of performance criteria.

There is a pure silver Litz coil winding wire too. The cost is in the thousands of $ per pound, there is a 6 pound minimum and a 6 month wait. I am thus very happy with copper....

Bud

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