62vauxhall
Super Member
Coat hanger wire is just a solid (as opposed to stranded) conductor but has it's limitations in the length department.
Unless you butt soldered the ends together.
Don't know if it's still in vogue, but years ago solid copper house wire was all the rage. Somewhere in the past year, I read something about lengths of copper water line instead of runs of wire.
I never tried the solid copper house wire myself but some co- workers did. Sonically, they were quite pleased but because the stuff is butt ugly and doesn't lay right, they went back to more supple stranded cable.
I can't remember exactly what the argument against stranded speaker wire was but it was something like the more the strands, the less coherent the signal.
I was sufficiently convinced to start using Kimber 4VR which I do to this day and it's been 25 years. Not exactly a solid conductor but the strands are thick. The strand count per sheath is 7 if I remember correctly and in the case of 4VR, they're of differing diameters.
Someone on Barter Town has 12 foot pairs of 4VR with fancy banana plugs on both ends for a hundred dollars per. Someone bought one pair already.
Unless you butt soldered the ends together.
Don't know if it's still in vogue, but years ago solid copper house wire was all the rage. Somewhere in the past year, I read something about lengths of copper water line instead of runs of wire.
I never tried the solid copper house wire myself but some co- workers did. Sonically, they were quite pleased but because the stuff is butt ugly and doesn't lay right, they went back to more supple stranded cable.
I can't remember exactly what the argument against stranded speaker wire was but it was something like the more the strands, the less coherent the signal.
I was sufficiently convinced to start using Kimber 4VR which I do to this day and it's been 25 years. Not exactly a solid conductor but the strands are thick. The strand count per sheath is 7 if I remember correctly and in the case of 4VR, they're of differing diameters.
Someone on Barter Town has 12 foot pairs of 4VR with fancy banana plugs on both ends for a hundred dollars per. Someone bought one pair already.