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post #16 of 18
6/25/07 at 1:36am
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Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
To be precise, the ones I've already sold.



It was my impression that they were independently insulated strands, not one seven stranded conductor. If it's just seven strands, that's not terribly useful unless you're going to pull it apart and insulate them, and why would you bother?
Navships' wire isn't individually insulated, though you can buy wire that does have individually insulated strands. It's called Litz Wire. Even with litz wire, though, all the strands are used for the same signal.

Stranded conductors are used for flexibility or to minimize the skin effect, but many people believe that non-litz stranded wire muddies up the signal.
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post #17 of 18
6/25/07 at 3:11am
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Originally Posted by threEchelon View Post
Navships' wire isn't individually insulated, though you can buy wire that does have individually insulated strands. It's called Litz Wire. Even with litz wire, though, all the strands are used for the same signal.

Stranded conductors are used for flexibility or to minimize the skin effect, but many people believe that non-litz stranded wire muddies up the signal.
Stranded conductors actually increase skin effect, since there's a larger amount of surface area in a greater number of conductors. A solid core conductor has far less skin effect than stranded, but it's also capable of carrying different loads more effectively and is far more flexible. This is why stranded is commonly used in power cable and ultra portable designs.

Also, I believe Litz wire employs a Litz braid, not simply a common strand. However, I'm not really an expert in cable geometry, this is just what I've read and what I've heard from Sean Casey of Zu Cable. I've also heard the statement about non-Litz wire and muddied signal, though i don't know how much i believe it.

For my recables, I use 4-conductor stranded wires for ease of use, and I like them a lot. Not very portable, but they sound great and I love the look.
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post #18 of 18
6/25/07 at 8:26pm
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Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
Stranded conductors actually increase skin effect, since there's a larger amount of surface area in a greater number of conductors. A solid core conductor has far less skin effect than stranded, but it's also capable of carrying different loads more effectively and is far more flexible. This is why stranded is commonly used in power cable and ultra portable designs.

Also, I believe Litz wire employs a Litz braid, not simply a common strand. However, I'm not really an expert in cable geometry, this is just what I've read and what I've heard from Sean Casey of Zu Cable. I've also heard the statement about non-Litz wire and muddied signal, though i don't know how much i believe it.

For my recables, I use 4-conductor stranded wires for ease of use, and I like them a lot. Not very portable, but they sound great and I love the look.
Stranded conductors reduce the skin effect. Solid core conductors are less flexible than stranded conductors. I'm not sure but I think solid core conductors can handle a wider variety of loads. Stranded conductors are used in power cables to maintain flexibility at higher gauges and are used in ultraportable applications to maintain flexibility or when the maker is afraid to use solid core wires.

Litz wire is meant to be braided, but it is often produced with the same geometry as regular stranded conductors.

Try using thinner solid core wires.

To be frank, pretty much everything in your post is the opposite of the truth.
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