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Posted by cdc (A ) on April 17, 2004 at 22:53:52

In Reply to: "Yet Another Home Depot" recommendation by TAS(long) posted by PeAK on April 17, 2004 at 08:25:21:

In about a week or so I will be getting the rest of the supplies I will need to build a 10' pair of the THHN 6 gauge cable from HD. I will directly compare the HD cables (see below for how I will be constructing them) with my current reference, a 10' bi-wire set of the CC89259 terminated with Furutech solderless spades (VH Audio sells them). I just recently updraded my front three HT/music system speakers. With the Furutech spades I must say the CC89259 cables are incredible in my system. Due to the low parts cost ($65 including shipping and sales tax) for a 10' HD 6 ga. pair, the ease of construction and minimal time to build a DIY set of these cables I could not resist trying them.

Contruction and parts details:

* Twisted pair (pink for positive lead and black for negative lead)

* Using Vampire RG6 spades (6 gauge spades that is gold plate over pure copper).

* Spades soldered using Cardas Quad Eutectic solder.

* The twisted pair will be heat shrunk the entire twist length with polyolefin heatshrink.

* Teflon wrapped then polyolefin heatshrink used to seal the connectors from air.

* I will dress the cables up with black techflex. Actually the finished cables will look like a thicker version of the CC89259. At least they will look cool and if I do not like them I will give them away as a gift!

I will run the new HD cables on a FryCleaner for a week continously before inserting into the system, then I will let them play 24/7 a few days before experimenting with them. I will compare them in a non-biwired setup, bi-wired setup, matched with the CC89259 with one on HF and the other on LF and then swapped. I am very curious if the two cables used together will have timing differences vs non-mixing them. I will test with varying types of music and HT.

As an FYI for those of you that are not famailiar with the HD 6 and 8 gauge THHN wire, they are sold as a single conductor wire. They are available in four colors, an off white, pink, black and green. My local HD (Bay Area, N. Ca) charges .25/ft. for 8 gauge and .43/ft for the 6 gauge. The wire is very stiff but can be molded into a shape. 19 thick gauge solid core copper conductors tightly wound and bound with probably PVC jacket then a nylon jacket.

The above wire will be tested in my main setup consisting of all Madrigal Audio Labs SS gear (mainly Proceed). I will list the cables and associated other accessories and gear used when I post my experimental findings noted above.

cdc

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