SuperQ wrote: > The only thing that I can see affecting the resistance of the bridges > used by many speakers is they tend to be steel and chrome plated to > look nice. I suppose it's worth testing the factory bridge with an Ohm > meter. It even might be worth testing with the bridge clip in place. > (terminal input to terminal input so you get the whole series > resistance)
Well, audio is more likely to be impacted by the frequency response of the wire, rather than its resistance, which will just decrease the gain (volume). All this assumes that the either the resistance varies with frequency (i.e. it acts like a capacitor or inductor) or it varies with time. Steel and chrome are good conductors, they carry current very well. And given that most bridge connectors are a half inch wide and maybe a 1/16" inch thick, they just are not going to have any resistance if the surfaces are clean. The result is most likely to be the Hawthorne effect. Or it could be that the act of connecting different wires broke through some surface corrosion. Dissimilar metals turn into batteries very quickly. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
