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RE: 2 Comments for Fla Charlie ...........

Fla Charlie,

The FIRST thing you want to do is treat the cathode with some deserved respect and NOT give it a choke input CLC power supply !!!!

Lets TRY to make it good, not such an obvious screw up!! L/C/L/C for the negative supply, OR... L/C/R/C only please !!

Good quality heavy AWG wire is the Siltec Silver 13 AWG wire. Price it and you will exclude 97% of the world's DIYers. I would say, 12 AWG as a minimum, maybe 10 if possible, stranded or a litz type.

But but but, you lose highs with this big of a common wire, so you need to parallel a single strand of TINY AWG wire, like magnet wire, across the 10 or 12 AWG, to get a balance. I would use this for all B+ distibution wiring, and for all ground return wires.

In my Eico HF-81, I listened this year to diferent wiring. I had 12 AWG silver stranded, with about 30 AWG Continuous Cast Copper magnet wire in parallel, and, after break in, it was OK. I actually preferred ( over the silver ), some Fulton Brown speaker wire, about 10 AWG, with a single 30 AWG CCC magnet wire strand in parallel. But, the Fulton Brown wire is not readily available to most people, so I am not so sure what to tell you that is cheap yet great.

One cheapo answer, UNTRIED by me, is at Radio Shack. They make a 12 AWG speaker wire, stranded copper called MegaCable, and they also offer fine AWG magnet wire, and heatshrink. I use about 1/2 inch sections of heatshrink, spaced every four inches or so, to parallel the fine magnet wire to the heavy copper speaker wire. That maybe beomes your on-a-budget starting point, subject to experimentation oin the future.

For audio signal wire, use Kimber's TCSS by all means, a best buy, safe choice. In certain places, like off of plates and especially in a direct couple, I will parallel two or more ( as many as four ) runs of TCSS, configuration selected by ear, sometimes with a single strand of magnet wire as a bypass.

I also think Wonder Solder is good sounding. Use it with GOOD ventilation, and please do not breathe its fumes. Position your input RCA jacks within two inches of wire lead length to the grid of the input tube. Do not ever " bundle" wires with tie wraps, etc.

Jeff Medwin

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