I am using the same stuff as Macca I think. Made by Oli (Big bottle audio?) and as thick as a hose pipe. Sounds great and superior to my Chord Epic Twin which was also great but too bright in the top end.
Main system : VPI Scout 1.1 / JMW 9T / 2M Black / Croft 25R+ / Croft 7 / Heco Celan GT 702
Second System : Goldring Lenco GL75 / AT95EX / Pioneer SX590 / Spendor SP2
Had a set of those back in the Day, think with my rega R3s?
Great sounding cables, they were very good.
Later compared with a DIY set of CAT5 based braided cables, and realised there was more tho to this speaker cable malarky.
Sold on the Mamba's, and subsequently found better than than the cat5's... and so it went.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4 (Modded)
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge (not Modded )
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
CD PLAYBACK - Shanling ET3 CD Transport over i2s to Dac + MOVIE PLAYBACK Oppo 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac)
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Shanling via Airplay 1 (losslessly) and onwards to Dac via Wireworld Silver Electra 7 i2s HDMI cable
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Biwire from Meridian 557 amp to speakers - Duelund DCA10GA on both bass and treble runs
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
Sounds pretty good!
From memory my speaker cables black rhodium cables
Regards
Robin
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Origin Live Calypso MK5 turntable, Origin Live Onyx tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Bronze
Pathos Classic Remix Amp, dac
Cyrus Signature phono stage
Eversolo DMP-A6
Cyrus CD i
ART Stiletto 6V3.
Biwire setup here, all Duelund tinned copper cable.
This weekend I replaced the 16 gauge cable on mid/treble duty with the same beefier 10 gauge I'm using for the bass.
My original thinking was go beefy on the bass, not so important for mid treble.. maybe as long as the same house sound?
Some whispers in speaker biwire lore though of the benefits of using the same cable throughout, not to interfere with the speaker designers original intent?
Peter Comeau (Ex Heybrook speaker guru and current Design of Acoustic Design at IAG) spoke of this exact thing.
He designed my current speakers, so was always on my mind to pay attention to that, so now eventually have the same cable throughout.
The thicker 10 Gauge is a very different animal to the 16, despite sharing the same house sound.
Anyhoo..
This weekends view:
MASSIVE pain in the hoop getting it made up and plumbed in!
At nearly 5mm thick its a thick thing, so was a lot of fun feeding it through the speaker and power amp terminals...just 1 rogue strand needed to catch and the whole thing unravelled!
The dialectric is cotton soaked in oil, so once I stripped back 3/4 inch I had to degrease and Deoxit the exposed ends.
Went with bare wire connection, the cable has tin plated strands, which oxidises to a very electrically conductive layer, so its not like copper cable where oxidisation is a bad thing.
So cheaper, simpler and best sounding with no soldered connections!
Happy to say its quite a bit better from the get go, from experience Duelund cable takes a few weeks of constant playing to come on song.
See how it all plays out, but very happy, sounding noticably better than before, straight out the packet.
Just "more" of everything, like the mid and top end has more space to do its thing.
Try the Duelund 10GA cable... Seriously.
Over on the American high end forums lots of Folks have swapped their $$$ cable out for it.
Few more pics:
CORES HELD TOGETHER WITH SELF ADHESIVE FABRIC TAPE
TWIST EVERY FOOT OR SO, CABLE IS UNSHIELDED SO THIS WILL HELP WITH RFI/EMI NOISE
Last edited by Gazjam; 13-10-2024 at 16:46.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4 (Modded)
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge (not Modded )
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
CD PLAYBACK - Shanling ET3 CD Transport over i2s to Dac + MOVIE PLAYBACK Oppo 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac)
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Shanling via Airplay 1 (losslessly) and onwards to Dac via Wireworld Silver Electra 7 i2s HDMI cable
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Biwire from Meridian 557 amp to speakers - Duelund DCA10GA on both bass and treble runs
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
Sounds pretty good!
More hair on it than a Turkish wrestler.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Last edited by Gazjam; 13-10-2024 at 16:39.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4 (Modded)
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge (not Modded )
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
CD PLAYBACK - Shanling ET3 CD Transport over i2s to Dac + MOVIE PLAYBACK Oppo 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac)
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Shanling via Airplay 1 (losslessly) and onwards to Dac via Wireworld Silver Electra 7 i2s HDMI cable
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Biwire from Meridian 557 amp to speakers - Duelund DCA10GA on both bass and treble runs
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
Sounds pretty good!
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