For those that have experimented with different types of wire in your high efficiency horn speakers, what do you recommend? seems like duelund is popular, belden 9497, but I’m a little apprehensive about tinned wire. When I was experimenting with wire, bare copper always seemed to sound better. Also curious if anyone has tried silver on the horns. Handmade electronics has some silver wire that’s really not that outrageous price wise.
Speaker internal wires
- Thread starter Phillip Jeffries
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I used solid silver wire from Tempo Electric : Pure Silver Cables for my Altec compression drivers as I wanted to maximize the HF extension. I don't really know if it made a difference over the Kimber Vari-strand 19g wire in there before but the silver stuff is still in use.
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I rewired the internals and crossovers of my Altecs with 16ga Neotech teflon. Not much to compare it to but I’m happy enough with it. Did this before hearing about Duelund, which I’ve liked as speaker cables.
Sonic Craft - Neotech
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I use mil-spec silver plated copper. I’m not smart enough and can’t hear good enough to hear a difference in wire(never made a direct comparison), but it’s a good quality wire. Easy to solder and really sucks it in. Works close to solid core wire, but I’ve had solid core brake at solder joints.
I tend to shy away from silver. Just past experience. When ever I introduce it, I find a harshness that is not agreeable to me. Reverse what I did and seem to like it better. Exception on my Graham tonearm. Silver wired internally and had a noticeable improvement going from a Kimber copper DIN to the Graham Silver DIN.
I'm actually looking at Duelund when I get around to building some Markwart crossovers. I had Analysis Plus speaker wires, and had some raw theater Analyisis plus wire I use to wire my speakers. Like the idea of matching wire from the amp to the crossover and from the crossover to the drivers.
I had Analysis Plus Oval 8 wires and liked them. When I went to my Altecs I pivoted the room and.needed longer wires so went back to some long runs of Audioquest 4TC biwire which was a step down. At that time i used some off cuts of the same internally.
Then I went Audtorium 23 copper wires and they were much better. Used internally as well.
When I went to the mast_mutter xos, Werner strongly advised me to use 9497 between his xo and the Altecs, and not the A23. He said he and Keith had done much testing and that was the way to go.
I am very happy with that setup now.
Then I went Audtorium 23 copper wires and they were much better. Used internally as well.
When I went to the mast_mutter xos, Werner strongly advised me to use 9497 between his xo and the Altecs, and not the A23. He said he and Keith had done much testing and that was the way to go.
I am very happy with that setup now.
ICTWoody
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I've tried to like 9497, but every time I've used it (I still have some speaker wires using it, but just in the closet) I find it to sound rolled off and kinda wooly. It might just not suite me. I have been using Duelund everywhere for a few years.
Devon Turnbull (Ojas) has some new wire out (he used to be a hardcore 9497 user) and I wouldn't mind trying some of that. I think someone on here maybe has, but I can't remember who.
- Woody
I am using this wire with good result.
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Tom Brennan
Junior Member
I use whatever's handy--bell wire, cut up extension cord, old speaker wire--whatever.
That wire looks exactly like the Jupiter wire, except he's using orange cotton instead of red.
