Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I spent about $500 cdn on speaker cables a few years back, but not for any real sound difference. These cables (I forget the manufacturer) are thin but very wide, about 6". They can run under rugs without you noticing that there are cables there. I had big thick ugly NAIM cables there before and dammed if I can hear the difference. Jonathan Lee Who is searching the web for an audiophile list so I can post something about Summilux glow there. - -----Original Message----- From: Peter Jon White [mailto:PeterJonWhite@PeterWhiteCycles.com] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 2:17 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] pointless debate about speaker cable In SOME systems, cables can have > a dramatic difference, in other systems, the difference is > minimal, if at all. This IS a fact, like it, believe it, > understand it, or not. I'd be more than happy to believe it, if only it were true. But since what the proponents of "wonder wire" say makes no sense, and since I've done a blind test (just to be sure I'm not nuts), and since the proponents won't do a blind test (because it creates "tension"), well, I guess you know the rest. Of course, in one case, and only one, it is true. If a speaker wire is not of sufficient diameter for the length, the capacitance will be too high and the wire becomes a low pass filter. But since 14 gauge zip cord won't have that effect for several hundred yards, (if my memory is correct) you have nothing to worry about. Just don't use 20 gauge wire for you speakers. Peter Jon White Peter White Cycles 666 Mass Ave Acton, MA 01720 978 635 0969 Voice 978 929 9654 Fax http://www.PeterWhiteCycles.com mailto:Peter@PeterWhiteCycles.com "Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe http://www.antiwar.com http://www.mises.org