WattGate, Furutech or Oyaide IEC connectors VH Audio 12 AWG shielded twisted pair cable Lastly, after extensive listening tests, it seems these cables need to "cook" for about 100-200 hours to reach optimum performance.
Please be sure to follow the right recipe for your component, in order to get full performance from these power cords. The components I used seemed to prefer one method or another. Something I found to be very interesting was that no ONE type of construction method sounded best on all components. a safety ground withinīy spiralling the safety ground in the oppositeĭirection of the twisted conductor pair, we further mitigate the effects between the hot and safety ground.
The twisted pair conductors to decrease the capacitive couplingīetween the hot lead and the safety ground (vs. In this design, it is very important to place a separate safety ground If you aren't into the "DIY thing", I also offer all my power cable designs fully assembled. * I have also tweaked a few other specs of my new wire for further improvement in sound quality.Īll parts to make my designs may be found at VH Audio This provides excellent RFI/EMI rejection, and also reduces the inductance (raises capacitance) vs. * The lay length (twists) of this new cable's twisted pair is 1" (12 twists per foot) vs. * The entire braided shield is about 12 AWG, providing The cable and harmlessly drained to ground. Keeping grunge out of the cable, but even more importantly to keep it localized This cable has both a foil ANDīraided shield, which effectively reduces RFI/EMI. Is about as close to the "Holy Grail" of dielectrics as it gets. Fluoropolymers (commonly known as Teflon, Teflon * Fluoropolymer insulation of the individual conductors AND outer jacket. The higher strand count than the 83802 increases the surface area for better contact when the connectors are screwed to the wire. 0188" bare copper wires (about 25 AWG) for a total AWG of 12 for each conductor. Rated maximum continuous current capacity for 12 AWG copper wire is in excess of 20 amps, which is more than * Two 12 AWG stranded conductors for low resistance. The only problem is that I couldn't find anybody that sold the type of cable I had envisioned. However, there were certain parameters could be tweaked even more, producing an even better sounding power cord. My prior design based on the Belden 83802 wire sounded very, very good.