Romex power cable as speaker cables?


I was experimenting with a pair of romex power cables to connect my speakers and amp - and much to my surprise i found a much cleaner presentation compared to the bluejeans belden  5T00UP. Its a pain to handle the romex - but i dont mind it as my run is less than 4 ft on each side. Whats good for 110V should be pretty good for carrying audio signals right? 
pistha

Showing 1 response by terry9

The copper part is fine but the dielectric is a bit of a problem because of dielectric absorption, which is increasingly problematic with frequency. You really want something like teflon or at least a good polyester.

I run ESL's which require a series input resistor, so I use open-to-the-air nichrome wire as speaker cable which tunes the system at the same time. The result is, you might say, no speaker cables at all!