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*WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters

G'DAY

I’ve spent a sizeable amount of the last year putting together this white paper: The Sound of Music and Error in Your Speaker Cables

Yes, I’ve done it for all the naysayers but mainly for all the cable advocates that know how you connect your separates determines the level of accuracy you can part from your system.

I’ve often theorized what is happening but now, here is some proof of what we are indeed hearing in speaker cables caused by the mismatch between the characteristic impedance of the speaker cable and the loudspeaker impedance.

I’ve included the circuit so you can build and test this out for yourselves.


Let the fun begin


Max Townshend 

Townshend Audio



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Showing 1 response by eagleeye7

eagleeye7
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While I have not yet had the time to go through the ""White Paper", the reason for the change in sound may well be related to the following:

Assuming one has a Scope & a Square wave generator, try passing a 20 K HZ Square wave through a cable & Observe the waveform that comes out of the other end.

The closer the wires in a cable are to each other, the more rounded will be the Square Wave coming out of the other end.

Only way to get a matching Square Wave Out, is to space the wires some distance from each other.

As music is not composed of Square Waves, some may hear the effects of this rounding of waveform & enjoy the results; others may think that that the rounding is negative for the sound they hear.

Take your pick & use Speaker Wires that fits your preference.

  
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