Al, that's perhaps why some manufacturers use foam Teflon (including my Acoustic Zen Absolute ICs) - not only to lower dielectric constant but to reduce absorption (introducing air). As for driving 1.5nF - I'll take your word, having limited experience.
Dielectrics and such...??
Knowing a little about something can be dangerous! Having read about poor dielectric designs, static fields, EMI…etc., I don’t know if my idea of executing some shotgun runs of speaker cables is a good or bad idea….
I want to use double shotgun runs of Kimber 4tc per speaker. Rather than twist the runs together, I want to try keeping them separated at equal width throughout the runs. My thought is to “laminate” four equal lengths of the cables together with some type of clear tape (i.e.: separate and secure four lengths of cables by an equal and consistent width throughout the run – say one-inch - by “sandwiching” all four cable between heavy clear tape).
Question: will the tape itself hinder the dialectic properties of the cables (because I assume the tape is a poor dielectric)…??
What say you electrical engineer types?
Thank you.
_Ben
I want to use double shotgun runs of Kimber 4tc per speaker. Rather than twist the runs together, I want to try keeping them separated at equal width throughout the runs. My thought is to “laminate” four equal lengths of the cables together with some type of clear tape (i.e.: separate and secure four lengths of cables by an equal and consistent width throughout the run – say one-inch - by “sandwiching” all four cable between heavy clear tape).
Question: will the tape itself hinder the dialectic properties of the cables (because I assume the tape is a poor dielectric)…??
What say you electrical engineer types?
Thank you.
_Ben