Title: Re: 4 outlet distributor box
Post by will on 08/04/24 at 18:36:15
Some reasons I suggested that particular wire is it has more strands than some others, and so, guessing a little more silver by proportion, and perhaps a tighter twist/pack maybe more like Decware Styx? But also, 30 ft of wire would leave enough to try a power cable or two out of it if you wanted.
The reason I thought leaving the stock wires in your box for a bit might be good if silver, was it might have been useful to get a point of reference to compare changes to. But also, based on the SDFBs opening up and working better here with a little smaller cables than I liked with fuses... though your box wires seem a lot smaller, they are also short, and I wondered if they could possibly work with the SDFBs... glad you found better sound with 12 gauge romex.
I went on a little ramble trying a bunch of Chinese made AC cable ends, something I have been meaning to do for years in my case, so compared to me, you did well... only 4 months!
Thinking about that silver plate/teflon wire I linked, if interested, I am thinking it could a cool experiment to make a few power cables with different twists, braids, and/or wraps. I so far have liked making cables of multiple, and somewhat various strands, making up the total gauge of each leg with several wires rather than one. And my fav for a while has been to split the ground wires in half, and wrap (or sort of braid) them around the line and neutral runs individually, the grounds meeting back up at the plugs. But in this case, with all bigger 12 gauge wires, I wonder what it might sound like with the line and neutral twisted, and a longer ground wrapped around the whole, maybe every 3-4 inches, or maybe 6, or maybe more.... the ground running across the twisted wires for better noise cancelation??? Or like so many do, braid all three, but I would try different tightnesses of braids and see what sonic differences that makes. In my experience finding the right geometry is big!
Here, my latest cable ramble was about testing different cables gauges, geometry, and ends, trying to "find" a more ultimate "piggy" for my needs... looking to speed up and clarify the too intense density/darkening/slowing shifts I got from the SDFBs and Mark's "piggies" compared to fuses.
Making a lot of them, and Mark wanting to hear what I was talking about, I was going to send him some variations of the different iterations. But I liked the wire configurations I came up with at first so much, that I just tested different ends on the same basic cables. The sound differences were quite notable with a few Rhodium, a few coppers, several gold plated, and several silver plated... And to me, the best, not always, but generally, share that more light weight "generic" vibe that might be similar to how your orange receptacles feel to you.
Similar with my tests a long time ago for main audio outlets.... with good quality metals in all the outlets, they included some pretty nice cryo'd Oyaide and Furutch and more, but the Mapleshade, (maybe NOS receptacles???) simple copper and light duty, was the most transparent and resolving here... not as hifi beefy and colored as the others, but better at more complete revelation of all the nuanced and fine stuff in space, with really good micro speed, and a little lighter sounding, but good enough balances to work from. To me, this was the best reference baseline all things considered, and that has held up with occasional comparisons over years.
Similar happened with this experiment with AC cable ends... Not always, and they all sounded really good relatively speaking, but I tended to prefer old-school light Neotechs I had, and the light plastic ones in this Chinese experiment, without heavy metal casings... presumably, the latter comparatively a little overly damped to me. I could use any of them, and do, but it was an intersting exploration.
So I was going to send Mark the same basic cables, with several different ends, but I finally decided just to send the stock one he sent with the SDFBs that I had modified to sound faster and more complex here, and one I made with my favorite sounding ends in my setup. As it turned out, these were the lowest priced ends I tried, and here, with my small strand runs of mil-spec silver plated copper combined for total gauge, these Red Copper ends really complimented the cable's geometry and setup beautifully... To me, they sound similar to Mark's HPCopper sluggos, rich and complex with a nice copper shimmer, but these ends (on these cables) were faster, and show all that good stuff with more space, a little less dense fullness, while still feeling a little warm and nicely balanced. Very revealing without hardness here as I recall (Mark still testing them, so I can't check). I look forward to seeing how what I heard translates to his system when he gets time to let me know.
Anyway, if interested, here are the ends I am talking about.
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