Ah, OK!My guess is Hari is probably looking at using it as a power cable too.
Teflon as a dielectric adds a bit of brightness to the top end which works well in some systems. PVC, rubber, ployeurethane foam, cotton all sound different as dielectrics
I think my post was confusing as i mixed 3 things in it.You are talking about IC's between the DAC and the amp, right? Why are you taking these parameters of the amp into the equation for the cable between the DAC and the amp? Maybe I'm missing something here or I don't understand fully. Can you please clarify?
Whats this? Can you elaborate further.One more thing to try is to size the return wire according to the Golden Ratio.
I have not tried the exact golden ratio [or even close] but a long time ago I used a 28 AWG wire as the signal wire and a 24 AWG as the return wire [both single solid core] and remember that there was a difference - everything just seemed right. Of course, things being equipment spec. specific - YMMV.Keith, I have not had a great experience using the return wire in a golden ratio. Tried this several years back. You get a sense of more speed. That’s nice. But somewhere I felt the tonality got affected. What’s been your experience?
Also tried copper for signal and silver for return. I guess, in one you are lowering resistance, in the other you are improving conductivity. Kind of similar results.
Yesterday rebuild my speaker cables using 18SWG wires and found the same. The tonal balance between lows, mids and highs is great. The speed, transient attack is also great. The highs are more rounded off and i would say more relaxed. But i like it that way. It gives me less listening fatigue for long hours of music sessions. The airiness in the music is still there if its in the recording.BTW, 18 gauge is very thick. And if it's solid core, very rigid. I know because I still have the 18 gauge enamelled transformer wire I experimented with for some time as speaker cables. They have a beautiful tonality but were a bit rounded off in the highs and lows, and were not particularly resolving.
An interesting variety of wire we ought to be experimenting and discussing is solid core RF cables. The finest sounding speaker cable I've heard in my setup was an RF cable based one which a fellow forumer from Bangalore kindly lent me. May be Prem would like to take the discussion on RF cable forward?
Make 3 bundles of cables:Will try with 28 for signal and 18 for return and check if it matters for me. Very close to golden ratio also. Difficult to twist the 18 over 28. Reverse could have been easy.