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Any good suppliers for Solid copper cable I want to remove the silver cable from tweeters. Looking to buy 4m something like 16awg would be ideal
Have you looked at HiFiCollective?
If it's just to wire up your tweeters then use a single twisted pair of CAT5 cable per +ve and -ve. Works for me and it's what I use on all my speaker builds.
electric beach
25-02-2013, 12:26
If you want 16awg then I'd use magnet wire. But I'm with Colin on this one - I think Cat5 is enough, even at 22awg. Personally I favour two completely untwisted strands per connection but of course it's what suits your particular amp and speaker.
Hope everything well Steve
This stuff is very nice.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SOLID-CORE-20-Awg-600V-silver-plated-teflon-Wire-5-lengths-of-20ft-/170993332363?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27cfff308b
Another nice option.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/16-AWG-STRANDED-MIL-SPEC-600V-TEFLON-WIRE-112ft-5-colors-Audio-Tube-amp-DIY-/170993332504?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27cfff3118
DiveDeepDog
25-02-2013, 22:44
Not sure about the gauge, but Audioquest Type 4 is solid core copper. Often pops up on ebay reasonably priced
If it's just to wire up your tweeters then use a single twisted pair of CAT5 cable per +ve and -ve. Works for me and it's what I use on all my speaker builds.
I agree with Steve (electric beach) and to clarify I mean in my earlier posting above to use a twisted pair stripped from CAT5 or CAT6 cable for both the +ve and the -ve connections so you are doubling up the standard 22swg wire. No need for any expensive 'booteek' cables.
Riislingen
27-02-2013, 12:37
Hi John,
Why solid core ? I´m thinking <16AWG solid is pretty inflexible for fitting inside a speaker.
I overcome the issue as using a wireless server creating issues with the treble Now sorted
I use 16awg silver sold core in the treble and thought I needed to move to copper
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