years ago (no decades ago) i found what a huge difference it made if the wires were reasonably thick, and cut to be exactly same length. cutting them to same length is problematic with eight loudspeakers (unless the amp sits in the sweet spot) but my next rig, in my own house, in bangalore next year, will have same length wires to all the speakers. umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:57:49 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Distance perception > > On 26/07/11 3:41 p.m., Sampo Syreeni wrote: > > On 2011-07-26, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > >> I certainly don't want you to waste your money on fancy speaker cables. > > Never thought otherwise. That's obviously never been what we do here. ;) > >> But resistance does matter, so a good cross section such as 2.5 mm^2 puts > >> you on the > >> safe side. > > > > What I was trying to ask is, what's the real problem with resistance, > > especially with > > regard to a passive speaker and a modern, A/B class solid state end stage? > > I mean, I > > don't really see cable resistance shifting their operating point much, even > > with > > feedback, within the audible range. > > > > What is it that I'm missing? > I swapped out some lamp cable on the speakers of a stereo setup some years > back with > some cheap stranded speaker cable I bought at Costco. Each core of the cable > was about 3 > times the cross sectional area of the lamp cord (each core of the speaker > cable was > about 3/16" in dia). The distances were not great, 5 or 6 feet. > The improvement in stereo imaging was huge. > Previously the image had wandered around between the speakers seemingly at > random, now > it was rock solid at the point wherever it was when I recorded it. > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110727/2a25f5c3/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
