The soldering is done very cleanly.
Alright, not silver plated... why don't you cut the wire and show us clearly? It's very easy to prove 🙂
Alright, not silver plated... why don't you cut the wire and show us clearly? It's very easy to prove 🙂
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OK here are some pictures. First off the wire is from this manufacturer.
Welcome to Thai Wonderful Wire Cable just plain ol hookup wire.
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Welcome to Thai Wonderful Wire Cable just plain ol hookup wire.
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infact its 1007 wire from them.
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UL 1007 Hook-up Wire
Applications
For general purpose internal wiring of electronic and electrical equipment
Product Description
Tinned, stranded or solid copper conductor, 32-16 AWG
Color-coded PVC insulation
Rate temperature: 80° c. Rate voltage: 300 volts
Passes UL VW-1& CSA FT1 vertical flame test. OS-1 is available
Uniform thickness of wire to ensure easy stripping and cutting.
Resistent to acids, oils, alka;ies, moisture and fungus
Welcome to Thai Wonderful Wire Cable
UL 1007 Hook-up Wire
Applications
For general purpose internal wiring of electronic and electrical equipment
Product Description
Tinned, stranded or solid copper conductor, 32-16 AWG
Color-coded PVC insulation
Rate temperature: 80° c. Rate voltage: 300 volts
Passes UL VW-1& CSA FT1 vertical flame test. OS-1 is available
Uniform thickness of wire to ensure easy stripping and cutting.
Resistent to acids, oils, alka;ies, moisture and fungus
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That shiny plating definitely looks like silver, though. 😉
And reports (with comparisons to solid silver cables with bullet-plugs...) strengthen the impression. 🙂
And reports (with comparisons to solid silver cables with bullet-plugs...) strengthen the impression. 🙂
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OK, it seems like you're right about the wire.
Weird, guess you should have listened to me in the first place since i have them in my hands and can see with my own 2 eyes 🙂 I know a quality cable from a 5$ one.
If I want braided interconnects, I will stick to my Monster M350i with outer shielding foil removed (giving lower capacitance), which sounds great...
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Well, you started by knocking down the connectors which I know as being good 🙂 So if you were to persuade me you started with the wrong foot, as we say in Italy.
Anyhow...
I have a variety of interconnects. I had forgotten this Monster M350i which I'd bought years ago in a corner, since I'd removed its shielding foil just as an experiment, and in the system I had at the time doing that didn't improve its sound quality as I recall.
But I came across it lately and thought why not give it a chance...it's a braided solid core with nice dielectric & good plugs, after all. 🙂
It turned out that, coming after my Audioquest King Cobra, it sounds even more transparent?! Well I still have to switch back and make sure 🙂 but I know I like what I hear, so I'm keeping it for now! I've even considered terminating this Monster M350i braided internal wire with some new RCA plugs I have, since I think the wire deserves the effort 🙂
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BTW, say what you like but I still remember how I liked this M350i even before I did my adventurous surgery on it. It had such a liiiiquid effortless midrange, and it still has it 🙂
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OK, it seems like you're right about the wire.
Tinned copper is better than silvered copper, no doubt 😉
The theory is that outer plating should be of lower conducting value than the core
In other words "slower"
PVC is ok too
I would certainly hesitate to choose teflon over PVC
Besides, many cables are about construction, just as much as materials
I bet the construction and design will influence more
Partly why I prefer thin and simple cables, less influence on sound
Soldering of ground wires does look bad or even dangerous
Its obvious that the amount of wires makes soldering problematic
And I really have no idea why a signal interconnect should be built like a speaker wire
Yeah, soldering of ground wires looks bad in the sample jleaman showed us.
Well... the theory may be that, but somehow I like silver plated copper, as it conveys to copper that slight more "edge" it sometimes just needs. 😉
Anyway I'll just try to hear the cables (which are waiting for me at the post office) without prejudice regarding the wires. 🙂
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Andrea & Jase: Please stop these personal attacks that dilute the value of the thread. Back on topic, please.Member
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There are no personal attacks here, i am stating the obvious proving my points and showing them also.
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