by EWBrown » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:38 pm
Last year, I read on one of the other audio forums about using a Wal-Mart outdoor extension cord for making speaker cables. The claim was this cheap cable was as good as any expensive "audiophool grade" cable, at a tiny fraction of the cost.
The cord is a Woods "Yard Master" 40 foot (12.2 metres) 16/3 gauge "Patio Cord" . The part number is 2382. Just cut the plug and receptacle off the ends, cut it into two equal (20 foot or less) lengths, strip and connect the ground and neutral wires together (or just use the neutral only) for the - side, and the "hot" lead for the + side. Terminate the ends as needed.
I suppose any 16 gage extension cord should work, the Woods has a nice clean white outer jacket, so it helps in the WAF category. And it's low cost.
Of course, being sold at Wal Mart, the cable is "custom made in China".
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