Looking for really fine cables at really low price

Mikirob --

Problem is, I think I'm looking at the stranded tinned, but it doesn't say so specifically. I have a message in, but so far, no reply. It would be nice if the listing was more specific... don't want to buy the wrong thing.

Jet --

Thanks for the link. I popped on 2 pairs. They had me at "soaked in" and it looks as though 6' 8" will just about work, although I'll have to clip those terminals off.

Next issue is that my Maggies only take bananas, so I won't be able to go in with bare wire, as far as I know. I'm sure I'll work something out.

Rob

Rhanson739, Some banana female terminals like my Audio Notes can be unscrewed and bare wire can be secured. At least you have the wire!

I bought 50ft of 22ga solid core wire from Tajacobs.

Jetrexpro, that is the same wire I would like to try but I need to finish the Belden ICs yet. When you finish your ICs with the 22awg solid wire, let us know what you think. Am I the only one here building balanced (XLR) cables?

I tried the solid core for speaker cables and not as good.

Grannyring, I am not surprised the stranded sounds better as speaker cable but I would be surprised if it sounded better as interconnect cables. Did you try the solid core wire in interconnects? If so, what gauge did you use?

Jet -- Yes, indeed. This should be interesting, especially given the price.

So, I picked up the two pairs of 6' 8" 16g "tinned 25 tinny strands" seen HERE, one pair for each speaker on a single-strand run. Seems cool, and I don't have to wait the 100 hours for burn in.

What's frustrating is that at these prices, I'd like to try out a double-run similar to Grannyring's experimentation, but I can't discern if the spooled cable is what I'm looking for, and tajacobs has not yet returned an answer.

I do have some 'evidence' that might be helpful:

This spool of red says "probably from the 90s", and I'm okay with that, as earlier stock is probably gone now. But, the description does not suggest that it's tinned, which seems to be a big contribution to the results others have had. My thought is to get 4 lengths of this, two for each speakers' positive posts.

But, on the black wire listed, the picture shows an end that looks, to me, like a tinned wire, so I'm thinking that both of these are what I'm looking for. If so, another 4 lengths for the other speaker posts.

Only difference I can see is one is from the 80s, one from the 90s. (I think they'd only struggle with the 70s, and most of us old folks have done.)

Think this would work out?

Rob