Another great video Guido. A thin solid core flat cable I've had good results with is DNM, they come in different diameters and are solid copper. Also, very reasonably priced-at least here in the UK. Well worth checking out as they have been at it since 1984.

I was experimenting with solid core copper cable over 35 year’s ago with a friend on his system. Working for a Telecom Company I had easy access to some smaller solid cables. This was initiated by a HI-Fi magazine back then recommending trying standard solid core 2.5mm mains, twin and earth,cable used in the UK. My friend and I both agreed it sounded better than the fashionable hyper multicore Monster Size cables of the day and that highly over-rated “49 Strand”. Perhaps they should have rounded the strands up to 50 🙂. After trying very thin solid cable the conclusion seemed to be that the 2.5mm solid was good for mid/bass (and treble) and the thin for “taming”higher frequencies but not so good for the lower ones(a bit light sounding). I ended up disassembling my crossover and bi-wiring my speakers with thin to the tweeter and some 7 strand? single mains cable to the mid/bass, twisted to make a pair. On my system, with a valve amplifier, it didn’t sound quite right and so the thin cable to the tweeter was replaced with the same as used for the mid/bass. It sounded pretty good to me and I still use the same modified speakers with that cable today. The bass sounds good for a valve amp(organic) and the treble is smooth and detailed-if the source material allows. Another friend said he went to a HI-FI shop back in the day and they said they didn’t recommend thinner cables for valve amps-I can’t argue-noting your comment about using efficient speakers. Being a solid(sort of) core convert I then made up a solid inter-connect, which was the best sounding I’ve ever tried. It was from a radio site. It was solid corrugated copper outer screen with quite a large gauge solid inner-an absolute pig to try and fit RCA plugs on the ends and of course had to be the correct length but it sounded magic. Unfortunately it’s gone missing. It was so transparent and great sounding to other coax cables I’ve tried. I now make do with Amazon basic interconnect which is very low capacitance and sounds pretty good.

Great video thanks. I use thin Duelund 12 AWG tinned copper cables with my Klipsch Fortes. I twist the single wires together to help reduce RFC pick up. They give a very open detailed live sound and seems to suit the horns very well. I might give these OCC copper ones a try though- silver version is a bit too pricey!!

I bought 16 AWG wire from GR Research for a refurb I’m doing to a pair of Klipsch Fortes. I bought more than I needed and also tried it as speaker cable, and it sounded great. It’s high purity copper, but sounds really nice.

Great information Guido. I remember when I was in engineering school we had a course called Transmission Line Theory and it was basically meant for very long distances e.g. delivering electricity to people's homes and businesses but this course had other ramifications. I believe that all of this new cable technology stems from similar theory courses.

Just in the last week I installed the 26 AWG version of that cable inside my amplifier, going from XLR inputs to the input board. Got the 26 AWG version because it was only €17 for 1 meter at Audiophonics, with thicker gauges being more like €36. The distance the wire needed to travel inside the amp was just 5cm-6cm, so 1 meter was plenty for my needs. It made a clear difference! It added about 0.5-1 meter extra width to the soundstage in all music, added more detail, and gave a nicer general character to the sound. I assume the effect of the wire will depend on how bad the cable is you're replacing.

Hi, I use AWG 24 in a multiple configuration. Gives air in the music. If you prefer more body you can go with thicker cable.

By the way, AWG is an archaic measurement really going back to the dawn of the industrial age. It stands for America Wire Gauge and the number of the wire represented how many times copper had to be drawn theough a sizing die to get to a speficid diameter. Thats why large diameter wires have low numbers and the smaller the wire gets the higher its designated number is. Is anyone still awake?

Jantzen Audio do a very nice solid core PE dielectric cable. Sounds very good and cheap as chips.

For speaker cable you don't need solid silver. The best thing is in fact silver-plated copper. The copper core will give you very good lows and mid-range. The silver plating will ensure clean, detailed highs. The lower price also means that you can easily afford thicker gauges and quad configuration, both of which always improve sound.

I bought my silver core 16 gauge that came with an 8 gauge teflon tube. Tempo Electric says the larger teflon casing offers more open sound. More air dielectric space.

I’ve used silver cables in fact I still have them but they made the horns on my La Scala’s or my Heritage horns to fatiguing.

My personal experience with solid core cables is the bigger the diameter the top end rolls off. Too small and it is top end heavy, You need to hit the sweets-spot on diameter. Or combine a thick and thin wire.

With your speakers, good choice. I wouldn't use them on a lot of other speakers. OFC cable is the best for most setups.

Enjoy the videos and channel

I watched a video, that I'm sure was made by you where you archived music from a website that had highest quality masters using some audio amp to cassette. (Idk who this video was, but the audio wasn't PCM) They played it though some kind of amp or dac player to their cassete recorder. And mastered the noise floor to increase the amount of possible sound to the cassette or something. If this was a video you have uploaded in the past, I cannot find it anywhere at all.

Try the silversmith fidelium cables.

Inspirational video and feedback. I have a query regarding shielding. Should I attempt to construct a cable in which each individual solid core cable is shielded with tinned copper braid, with the shielding connected to the negative terminal at the amplifier end? Would it be advantageous to place the individual cables into cotton sleeves before inserting them into the copper braid? Lastly, I'm interested in creating a bi-wire cable. Should I utilize solid core cables of different diameters or materials for the low-frequency and high-frequency components?

Check out Canare 4S8G speaker cable.

Ya good ...frum technics sl 1200MK7 stylus orthofon 2m black Question-audioquest evergreen to preamp projectbox s2 psvane to audioquest evegreen dbs 72v to mac 1900 2.5 amps 55 watts out to biwhierd evequest coper knowing that mac is copered is verry resposive with kef 80wats and Bose 301 it feels boreales colurfull a mist in falls ...what you think about the combo ?

Hi Guido, So you dont recommend Yarbo OCC-FV 110 cables not good for these speakers? I got Focal Kanta2

How are you?, can you tell me what a difference in an ultra low capacitance interconnect would do? I have type 45 tube mono blocks. Thanks

I want to try the neotech occ copper solid core cable. I have a single ended triode amplifier pushing 35 watts and my soeakers are 92db sensitivity into 4 ohms. Which gauge should I use?

Have you every try Zavfino cables?

😃Where is the link to buy upocc silver?

What are the perfect terminations for the perfect speaker cables for high efficiency speakers? I may make a set of cables with this cable all kidding aside I am honestly wanting to know what you like and recommend

How about Heresy 4?

Have you tried Neotech 16AWG but STRANDED OCC Copper? Simple lightly twisted pair for the + and - ..

NEOTECH is one of the best ...

How does silver 1.5 mm or 2 mm. speakers cables sounds with big floorstanding high sensitivity speakers? does they really have the clean sparkle top end as every manufacturer of cables claim?

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Have you tried a silversmith fiedelium cable?

You say that skineffect is for higher frequency. But, skindeph is 0,5 mm at 20 kHz In your clip you will have problems in the heights A better solution is to use two in parallel with smaller diameter or four in parallell for even better result. It definitely will make a change in the musical experience. Karl-Erik 10:18

Does the wire come terminated?

Watts yer point?

So negative impact of physical measurement differences of cables can be ignored due to the short length we use in audio. The plot twist here is… we still have the positive impact that gives you an extra 10%. So science is just for the bad… the good is far beyond science. I must admit I did’t expect this LoL

I have tried at least 40 different interconnect cables over many decades. Haven't tried as many speaker cables, but plenty. MIT, Audioquest, Zu Audio, QED, Tributaries, Monster, Chord, Better Cables, Supra, etc. The only one that made a huge improvement (of the speaker cables) was MIT MH 770 Ultralinear II. I did think Better Cables was a pretty darn good cable also, and I did kind of like Chord Epic II, but realized after a while that it wasn't the last word in tone colors. The others I didn't like, except for Tributaries Seies 8 (older series), which I am still getting to know, but am sure I like it fairly well at this point. But a strange thing happened lately. I changed the positioning of my equip. around in my room. Those wires wouldn't reach anymore and just for the time being, I just went out and bought a spool of some cheap copper coated aluminum cables. Better some sound than none. Right? They are just cheap $25 a spool speaker wires. Guess what? I don't hear them doing a thing wrong sonically! Surprise! No coloring the sound or anything deviating from neutrality, no harshness, hardness or loss of bass definition. I am wondering if I spent a lot of money for nothing over the years going from one fairly expensive speaker cable to another. The MIT cable (expensive), I never bought, just had a lengthy home audition. Amazing cable but too warm for my system back then. I won't be able to compare the Tributaries cable to the cheap cable because of length requirements. It makes me think that it must not cost a lot of money to make a speaker cable which does its job just fine. It simply steps out of the way and lets the music flow without altering it.

This is for a single cable. So a 10 ft pair would be 50x4= $2000...OUCH!

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For 3m long cables, it doesn't really matter if it's silver or copper, as long as they are thick enough. It's a placebo effect. You can't measure any significant differences. PS. Negative and positive need to be twisted around each other.

Science vs listning. Listen to the music, enjoy and rely on your ears. If you listen to science, be careful to make statements! Example 1: often typ Ohms Law is used to explain, this is a very simplified way to use. If you care about timing effects (music is much about timing) yau shall use Maxwells equations to be able to discover the reactive effects (very important to get an non smeared reproduction) Example 2: Measurements often are made with steady state signals (sinewaves) Harmonic distorsion is an example. You miss all the timing aspects!! Be careful. Example 3: Statement, you need long wires to make a difference. Be careful! Often this is related to wave lengths of speed of light, but in cabels the speed of velocity is in the range m/s. With this in mind you can use science developed for ower 100 years. Short cables makes a difference. The science shall not tell you what you hear, it shall describe what you hear. So, listen to the music and thrust what you hear. Karl-Erik

No china occ fake . Nice but a little late

I am an actual metallurgist and I certify that the statements made in this video are bonkers. The concept of silver for speaker cables has been debunked some time ago. OCC will not help the characteristics of silver very much, but what it definitively does is prove that audio insanity is contagious. Most of the audio assessment statements made are better suited for wine tasting. The prices quoted here are completed unrealistic for true (non-SKW brand!) OCC cable. You want 6N purity, you will pay a lot. Do we need to do a lab test to prove it? Like this one? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrx8hZx22qnPl6M.html

😅😅welcome Voodoo hifi. 48.50$ for one. 97$/m .best joke on monday morning.

shielding might be helpful but that’s it. please keep snake oil and silver in the mountain - away from fraudulent companies for audio. awful

The price is comical. Sorry. Maybe if you run your amps a foot from your speakers but for most normal setups you’d be spending thousands on wire to drive less than a watt of energy.

what the fudge dude. danm another snake oil guy. if you study electrical engineering even a little you’ll know that current doesn’t care about speaker sensitivity and gauge does nothing to enhance things sonically.