Cable myths, or truths?

[The Dark force of dance]

Y-ellow.

At 06:54 PM 4/2/98 -0800, Mark Amundson wrote:

>As a user of 16AWG zip cord and other semi-exotic speaker cables, the
>zip cord works the best given that mediochre connections do not overide
>good wire. For the most part, it is a game of milli-ohms contributed by
>all the components involved. These include the power amp circuit, amp
>terminals, cable terminations, cable construction and length, speaker
>terminals, crossover, in-cabinet wires, speaker terminals, and voice
>coil winding. Now the kicker, if and only if the cable is long enough,
>then the transmission line distributed reactances, and resistance become
>noticable.

Forgive me for intruding in this little farce but isn't a speaker's
impedance nominal to start with. Have you ever stuck a meter across any
given range of speakers only to find that they're all around 5 ohms but
different. And that any given speaker's impedance will be different to the
next. And that any amplifier worth wasting a power bill on has to be able to
deal with all this stuff otherwise it's just a heap of junk. And that when
it all boils down to it, 0.002%THD isn't exactly distinguishable from
0.003%THD anyway. And that unless you forked out 20 grand for a pair of
Duntechs, none of the above matters a great deal. And even then it only
matters because there's 20 grand involved already.

I'm sorry I just don't buy all this audiophile crap.

The only thing that really matters in a speaker cable is if it can carry the
current. In other words, the thicker the better. Usually 10 amp lighting
flex (Figure 8) does the trick. Well for everything up to about a thousand
watt PA Amp. Only an Audiophile would use anything else. And aren't these
the same people who'd buy a 1500 buck D-A converters only to find they have
the same components as a 30 buck PC sound card.

What's the expression. "There's one bourn every minute"?

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