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Speaker cables from foil
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(07-May-2015, 23:53)Mikeeo Wrote: Hi All,

Had many moons ago planned to test speaker cables made of copper/silver foil and a construction based on Allen Wrights ideas. The rolles of Mundorf copper foil have been sitting in my diy cabinet for over a year. As I've been working heavy lately so I just took the day off and told my self that now it is time!
It is not an easy construction so it took me more than 5 hours to complete. I have a lot of practice from making cables with foil but only 1 m length for low level signal duties.
This time the foil is 28x0,07 mm and I made 2 m lengths. The + and - is as tight and flat together as possible with only 0,042 mm of polypropylene tape in between. Same tape is on the the outside of each foil. 
I soldered on silver plated beryllium copper bananas and thats it!

How does it sound?

Well, as I had hoped for due to earlier results with silver foil, excellent!

Another brake was released (recent brake release was with the 7.1.3) even more ease for the music flow, tighter and better resolved bass, more air around everything, micro details etc etc. They definitely beat the Ansuz C speaker cables I tested (retail GBP 5400).

Any one else tried foil based cables?  

A little picture with the glowing foils doing there stuff!

/Mike

Mike, can you tell us where you sourced the polypropylene tape, and part number? Although I have Allen's book, I would like to make sure I get your fantastic aspect! The foils are even thinner than Goertz's - this can only be good!

By the way, which Mundorf inductances are you using to get the foil? As you get only the inductance value, you can't estimate what's the cable length in each...
Oslo: sources: Mac Mini/Itunes/Audirvana,  glassfiber toslink/Mapleshade clearview USB to D200;
Double helix to Gallo Strada 2 with mapleshade stands, TR3 subwoofer.

Spain: Oppo 95 vacuumstate modded, Kimber select 1021, Linn Classik Movie Di to Gallo Solos through Goertz Python cable


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Speaker cables from foil - by Mikeeo - 07-May-2015, 23:53
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Mikeeo - 08-May-2015, 08:23
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Divasson - 08-May-2015, 10:06
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Kunter - 10-May-2015, 06:46
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Divasson - 10-May-2015, 09:45
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Mikeeo - 10-May-2015, 10:17
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Mikeeo - 13-May-2015, 19:29
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by f1eng - 13-May-2015, 19:37
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Divasson - 14-May-2015, 15:34
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Mikeeo - 16-May-2015, 07:48
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Robert - 08-Jan-2016, 14:38
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Robert - 08-Jan-2016, 14:39
RE: Speaker cables from foil - by Rodney Gold - 13-Jan-2016, 09:16

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