Those who have read my earlier post on cables and interconnects would know that i am NOT a cable freak. This is because i could not make a difference in SQ between a stock cable and a little expensive one. But past 3 days, i have been experimenting with silver plated teflon copper wires as my interconnects. I also did the following changes,
- removed my DCB1 preamplifier from the signal chain and went direct between DIY DAC to 300B mono-blocks. First used the stock RCA cable between them. Since i already had my sliver platted teflon copper cables with me tried them for a change. To my surprise for the first time in my life i could make difference between the two. The clear difference was increase in mid-bass, reduced harshness and softer mids. To confirm once again, i went back to the old cable and played the same track with everything else remaining the same. I did this comparison many times to confim my findings.
Later i googled to find out why this is so. People mention its more to do with the teflon coating which has low dielectric constant. I then further researched to find out that, even speaker cables used with silver plated teflon cables are good for sound stage and dynamics. Further research also showed me that people are also using them for AC power chords and what not.
I did a qucik math for my setup. My amp is 6w + 6w and my power supply is 80 Watts consumption. So this will require around 400mA of AC current. Data sheet of teflon cables show around 10A current carrying capacity for an 18AWG wire, which should serve my requirement.
So i may plan to change all my interconnects, AC power chords, speaker cables with 18AWG silver plated teflon cables.
Am not sure if anyone else have tried this before, and if yes will be happy if they can share their experience.
- removed my DCB1 preamplifier from the signal chain and went direct between DIY DAC to 300B mono-blocks. First used the stock RCA cable between them. Since i already had my sliver platted teflon copper cables with me tried them for a change. To my surprise for the first time in my life i could make difference between the two. The clear difference was increase in mid-bass, reduced harshness and softer mids. To confirm once again, i went back to the old cable and played the same track with everything else remaining the same. I did this comparison many times to confim my findings.
Later i googled to find out why this is so. People mention its more to do with the teflon coating which has low dielectric constant. I then further researched to find out that, even speaker cables used with silver plated teflon cables are good for sound stage and dynamics. Further research also showed me that people are also using them for AC power chords and what not.
I did a qucik math for my setup. My amp is 6w + 6w and my power supply is 80 Watts consumption. So this will require around 400mA of AC current. Data sheet of teflon cables show around 10A current carrying capacity for an 18AWG wire, which should serve my requirement.
So i may plan to change all my interconnects, AC power chords, speaker cables with 18AWG silver plated teflon cables.
Am not sure if anyone else have tried this before, and if yes will be happy if they can share their experience.