[FooTemps]

Well in the spirit of this thread on diyaudio.com diyAudio Forums - Follow up on copper foil speaker cables

I'm curious as to your experiences with flat foil cables. I'm thinking of maybe trying a stacked setup for headphones. Anyone have anything to say aside from "do it!"? It'd be greatly appreciated if anyone has tips on how to terminate such cables.

 

[AudioCats]

don't know how it will work as speaker/headphone cable, but the way he insulated the foils (using self-adhesive tape) will yield disastrous sonic result in a IC cable. Ask me how I know

 

[d-cee]

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Originally Posted by AudioCats /img/forum/go_quote.gif don't know how it will work as speaker/headphone cable, but the way he insulated the foils (using self-adhesive tape) will yield disastrous sonic result in a IC cable. Ask me how I know

how do you know?

 

[FooTemps]

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Originally Posted by AudioCats /img/forum/go_quote.gif don't know how it will work as speaker/headphone cable, but the way he insulated the foils (using self-adhesive tape) will yield disastrous sonic result in a IC cable. Ask me how I know

They also sell pre insulated foil kev, but how do you know? lol

 

[Danika k]

I want to know how he knows too. lol

 

[Fing]

I think the question was rhetorical...

 

[Kees]

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Originally Posted by Fing /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think the question was rhetorical...

How do you know?

 

[FooTemps]

wow that was a fast threadcrap... hahaha.

What would you guys reccomend for laminating the foils together that isn't tape?

 

[Jon L]

The way Silversmith Audio does it sounds great. The foil touches the housing only on the side edges, the broad sides only insulated in air.

I tried this once and even bought teflon tubing and silver foil. The big problem was finding the right size tubing. The teflon tubing I could find was round and way too thick to bend into flat/ovoid shape that you need.

Another way is teflon tape. You can find the plumber's teflon tape at Home Depot, but they are very narrow. I found some wide teflon tape, but I can't recall where right now...

 

[Vul Kuolun]

Let them run paralell here and there, and build yourself a capacitor that looks like a cable. With random values for the left and the right channel.

Now that will sound fine!

 

[Kees]

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Originally Posted by FooTemps /img/forum/go_quote.gif wow that was a fast threadcrap... hahaha. What would you guys reccomend for laminating the foils together that isn't tape?

Why would you want to laminate the foils together?

 

[FooTemps]

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Originally Posted by Kees /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why would you want to laminate the foils together?

Not literally laminating them together, but next to each other like the guys on diyaudio did.

 

[AudioCats]

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Originally Posted by d-cee /img/forum/go_quote.gif how do you know?

hehehe, that was when I first started to experiment different IC geometries.....I wanted to make a ribbon type IC, so I use two 36awg magnet wires, laminated between two 1" wide electrical tapes, the wires were about 1/2" apart (well, more or less). The sound was muddy as hell.....
The same 36awg magnet wires yield acceptable sound when used as simple twisted pairs, so I know it wasn't the wire, must be the tape (or more specifically, the adhesive on the tape).

But like I said, the speaker cable might respond differently....