Anyone play around with Duelund wire?

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I'm very intrigued about this Duelund wire. I ordered a Don Sachs Preamp and he made a point to tell me he's using all Duelund wire in my build. I have been reading a good amount about interconnects and speaker cables made with this wire and apparently there's some kind of mojo happening with them. I ordered a few meters of different gauges and I'm going to make up some interconnects and use it for speaker cabling. I wonder if it can replace my Audioquest WEL Signature interconnects and Redwood speaker cable. I'll have to try hard to trust my ears and not my wallet. I do know the cabe takes a long time to settle in. I'll hook it up to my X350.8 while the amp is breaking in as well and then do a comparison with the AQ stuff.
 
Am interested in how your experiment turns out. The silver foil with oil-saturated silk covering (either 2.0 or 3.0 version) is something I would like to try as speaker cable, and have been tempted for a while... not cheap though.

Currently using super-thin copper foil from Omega Mikro.
 
I've made my own IC's using Duelunds 20 ga and SE plugs. I also use their 16 ga as speaker wire. Very happy with the sound AND the cost. Don suggested I try both. For now they're staying.
 
I just ordered some 16 gauge wire. Has anyone cooked the wire to speed up break in? I am referring to using a cable cooker or Fry baby. Was it effective in your opinion?
 
Mike B. said:
I just ordered some 16 gauge wire. Has anyone cooked the wire to speed up break in? I am referring to using a cable cooker or Fry baby. Was it effective in your opinion?
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I burned mine in on my AudioDharma cable cooker (which cost over 3 times the price of all of the Duelund cables - 4 x 10’ runs of 16 GA for my bi-wired outboard Duelund xover, plus a 1.5 meter pair of Duelund 20 GA ICs from my DAC to my ASR amp).

IMO, they are awesome for higher efficiency speakers, not so much for medium-to-low efficiency speakers.

So they are great for my 96 dB Tannoys.


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i am using the dca16ga for bi-wired speaker cables (4 conductor wires per cable) and the dca20ga for unshielded interconnects...

i could not be happier with the sound - absolutely fantastic with my SET amp and 91db efficiency speakers. in fact, they are refered to as "the majic wire" by others in the house. they are in my system to stay.

my experience with the burn-in was that they sounded quite nice from the start and were pretty much at their best after 20 hours or so of normal listening.
 
I ordered some from Parts Connexion. Looking forward to giving them a try. I saw discussion at another forum. The recommendation from a user was to twist the two wires with average 1.5 inches between crosses. Anyone else doing this?
 
Mike B. said:
I ordered some from Parts Connexion. Looking forward to giving them a try. I saw discussion at another forum. The recommendation from a user was to twist the two wires with average 1.5 inches between crosses. Anyone else doing this?
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Lots more twist than I use, haven't tried 1.5 inches between crosses.

Also, are you inquiring about ICs or speaker cables?
 
From an interference point of view, twisting pairs of wire is always good. As to the number of turns per foot (or whatever) it's not that important.
Yes, more turns works at higher interference frequencies and closer to the interference source. But above about 4 turns per foot there are other factors and not as much interference to start with.
So don't worry about the number of turns, just do whatever looks good.
 
If you cut open a scrap piece of Cat5 cable, you will see that it doesn't take a huge number of twists to work. And a Cat5 cable pair is touching 3 other high frequency interference sources.
 
I got my order of 16 gauge wire Friday. I made up the cables with a twisted configuration. One word. Impressed. I didn't burn them in. Decided to hear the break in process. I have about 6 hours on them now. If they get any better I will be further amazed.
 
Mike B. said:
I ordered some from Parts Connexion. Looking forward to giving them a try. I saw discussion at another forum. The recommendation from a user was to twist the two wires with average 1.5 inches between crosses. Anyone else doing this?
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i put one twist per foot in the speaker cables and two twists per foot in the interconnect cables. seems to be adequate as i could not be happier with results.
 
Cable twisting is not rocket science. Anything from a few to several per foot would be OK. But for 99% of us, twisting or not twisting will make no difference. It's that 1% who have an interference problem that it helps. On the other hand, just because you don't have an interference problem today doesn't mean you won't tomorrow. Any new item that you or a nearby neighbor plugs into the wall has the potential to generate interference.
 
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