Hello When I first got my ESL57s I had no decent cables so wired them with bell wire and guess what they sounded great! I have some chunky monster cable now,...
Truer words were seldom spoken. (about cables versus speakers). Does it not occur to people that all the old recordings you have and most of the newer ones...
Dear All Many years ago I went to a Quad factory organized demonstration in a hotel room in Nottingham of the then Quad product range. The 63 speakers used...
Hi, All, After reading this thread about cables for some days now, I thought I should react with some technical facts. With cables in general 3 things are...
Hi Gary I have a sneeky feeling that this was around about the time that audiophile cables were coming out and that this demonstration or a later one was set...
Hi Stefan et al It is refreshing to hear such a view....after all if the design is rubbish it will not matter how much money you throw at it by using "Voodoo"...
Hi, Oxygen (or air in general) in the copper might influence conductance locally in some parts of the cable. But at LS-level (several volts / amperes) and over...
Hello Stefaan Russ Andrews suggests that speaker cables can be a route for RF interference in to the audio chain and that a weaved cable such as kimber cable...
Hi, Richard, I don't know about valve amplifiers. In current-dumping amplifiers (405 to 909) RF interference is excluded via the output. In the 303 as well,...
Hello Stefaan/Richard, Some aditional information: I've seen several burned R39's (the 10 Ohm resistor in series with the generally 100nF or 47 nF capacitor at...
Along this line, I recall that someone once asked Peter Walker what type of cables he preferred. He responded "I am partial to ones that conduct electricity." ...
... Hi all - this is a very interesting thread to read, and I am intrigued that there have been so few contributors who feel it necessary to defend the...
... VERY Good Point!! RF pickup (in speaker cables) can affect the Amplifier. (not really the speaker) Personally I use Mark Levinson Speaker Wire with my ...
... I think the capacitance of the 57's is probably a few thousand times more capacitance than any capacitance from shielding a few feet of wire. Actually, I...
... Actually, some Electrical Power Distribution Lines have more than One conductor per phase as you say. This is actually not for current carrying capability....
... Hi Steve - You are right about corona control - but that is not likely to be a concern in a speaker cable, which is why I did not mention it ! The way in...
Funnily enough, even though I think there are audible differences between cables (my 'Silver Sounds' cables do sound different from, but not necessarily better...
Sorry, guys, but there IS something in this. I have the misfortune (in my second system) to have the mains cable and the speaker cables running some 10 feet...
... and the ... the listening ... small ... there even with ... there is ... no hum! ... solution. ... screened ... that in all ... BUT it was ... 50hz) which...
... Hi Steve - I suspect that there is a lot of misunderstanding around concerning Litz wire and multistranded speaker cables, perhaps as a result of...
Hi Tigger. The Kimber Cable is twisted 'sets of pairs' which is why it worked. And yes, the induction is primarily electromagnetic, but radio waves are also ...
Hello group... Very interesting information presented here by Tigger. All I could add is 'oxygen-free' copper is I believe specified for microwave wave-guides ...
Hi Tigger and group... I recall being taught that while 'skin effect' applied to HF/RF generally, Litz wire only benefited when used at radio frequencies ...
Hello all, Maybe also this article concerning speaker cables is interesting. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-10/972402238.Eg.r.html Regards, Paul ......
Hello all, Maybe also this article concerning speaker cables is interesting. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-10/972402238.Eg.r.html Regards, Paul...
... In fact it is 2 µF in series with about 1.5 ohm. The 2 µF is the reflected capacitance through the 1:50 step up ratio of the treble. The 1.5 ohm is from...
At microwave frequencies hardly any current flows through a conductor so purity is paramount. Examples of the importance of skin effect include the practice of...
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