On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:16:59AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2011-07-26, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > >> Lamp cords ? Use at least 2.5 mm^2 ! > > Where does this come from? I've never though cable geometry matters much > at all, unless your pumping so much power through a cable over such a > long distance that you have to worry about ohmic heating and the like. > And even there, I've always thought changing resistance would mostly > affect a tube end stage, which we've almost done away with already in > favour of the A/B class solid state one. And at audio frequencies, > shouldn't even feedback oscillation and its kin be well below perceptual > thresholds? > > True, my cables are multistrand ones with approximately that > cross-sectional area per polarity. But not because of some esoteric, > audiophile reason. It's because that's what they sell the cheapest as > "speaker cable" in my local shop.
I certainly don't want you to waste your money on fancy speaker cables. Just ordinary mains cable is perfectly OK. But resistance does matter, so a good cross section such as 2.5 mm^2 puts you on the safe side. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
