I really wonder, how would m22759/11 12 compare with Duelund DCA 12 AWG which is $19.99 a meter ??? Both are well made, one is copper stranded tin plated, and the other is nicely silver plated, copper stranded ?
The price difference per foot is 50 cents versus $ 19.99 / meter divided by 3.28 feet, or $6.08 a foot. Duelund is 12.16 times more expensive.
My question is this : if the costs were the same, which would sound better ??
Jeff, they're very different wires regardless of the cost differential.
I haven't used yours but I have experimented with similar wire (silver-plated, stranded copper in PTFE jacket) and I didn't like it much. It was bright and a bit
edgy in my system. Your favorite might not be, but on the surface of things it looks like the same kind of stuff and I am not keen to buy any more, even if it's inexpensive. That's my personal opinion and YMMV and all that, of course.
I've used other nice wire, some of it expensive and some very much
not so (doorbell wire!) and I determined that I generally don't like silver-plated wire. Silver by itself - very high purity silver - is something different, though; I really like that in many cases.
Teflon has been hit or miss for me too, and I think it has something to do with how it's used as a dielectric. PTFE-sheathed cable I don't like, but solid core wire (silver or copper) in PTFE spaghetti tubing is nice - I think that's actually an air dielectric.
And speaking of wire dielectric (sheath), I think I've fully succumbed to the brainwashings of the ACA (Audiophile Church of the Arcane) -- natural is better. Give me cotton or silk, please! I can't begin to explain why, or use any fancier language to persuade you, but cotton and silk sound more...
natural to me than plastics.
Tinned-copper wire was a real surprise to me. Tin seems so...
pedestrian that I didn't want to like it. But darn if it ain't really really nice stuff! The Duelund wire is sheathed in church-approved black cotton and oil
dielectricum -- it's sexy and it smells kinda funny too, which is cool.