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In Reply to: Apologies to Jon Risch for the "ultimate IC" - now where did I read this.... posted by Thorsten on May 10, 1999 at 15:49:01:
None necessary, no offense taken.My DIY recipes and designs are aimed at using readily available commercial cables and wires to make your own homemade audio cables. Some people might argue about 89259 being readily available,m but it is obtainable, even if there is a bit of a wait when ordering at a reasonable price. For those in a hurry, Newark sells it for a premium, but keeps it in stock (more or less).
What would be my ultimate? I sent a recipe to Steve Lampen once, but never heard back. He tends to believe that the range of current Belden offerings are enough for audio purposes.
For a coax, I would love to see the basic 89259 done in a very pure OFHC large crystal copper, perhaps using the OCC copper of Harmonic Tech, with individually insulated strands of varying gauges, and an air injected/air channel TFE for the insulator.
For a twisted pair, I would like to see a similar core twisted precisely around another such core, and bonded together (or extruded over the pair) so that mechanically there would no looseness to the pair of wires. A large amount of highly foamed FEP or TFE spacer, and then a foil/braid shield.
Both would have pure TFE jackets of course, lending the "super-89259" towards use as a cross-connected speaker cable.
Pure silver versions would also be nice to hear and experiment with, but may not be necessary if the copper was good enough.
The ultimate? Maybe, but I have some other ideas that might bear some exotic fruit too. Just don't have the $50,000 laying around to have the cable custom made on a whim. Fancy that....
Jon Risch
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