I'd steer clear of silver for wiring and crossover construction inside speakers as a rule, experiment by all means, as it can work, but good quality copper seems to give far more predictably satisfactory results. I've tried both.
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I'd steer clear of silver for wiring and crossover construction inside speakers as a rule, experiment by all means, as it can work, but good quality copper seems to give far more predictably satisfactory results. I've tried both.
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TBH i did buy 10 meters of 1mm solid core shielded copper for the job of rewiring the speaker and rebuilding the x-o so to keep costs down I'll stick with that. Additionally I want an all copper setup. My reference system is entirely wire-up in silver, cartridge tags right the way through to the power leads, even the 1210's intrinsic wiring is silver. The valve setup has remained copper, so I think this is the way I shall continue.
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For Vintage speeka's Ive always used Kimber 'TCX' for rewire's, Ansar Polpropylene caps, Any power resistors (Isnt in the Mk.1, 44's) Mill's 'MRA 12' wire wounds..
I'd probably replace the old cheap solder tags on that brown board with some Ag plated turret tags, not sure if you can get them in but i find the WBT-0730.12 platinum plated posts excellent value for money (I have some gold '0763's if you want em)..As for solder i switched to Mundorf.
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