*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 itsjustme

The abstract defines the "error" as the voltage drop between amplifier and speaker. Isn’t that determined solely by the resistance of the speaker and cable? So the "lowest error" would be obtained with a speaker cable of least resistance?
Look, i’m not defending  costly magic cables. I focus more on really good connections (which typically suck, and are made worse by obstinate fancy cables BTW).  I cannot tell you how many systems i have tightened a connector on or eliminated an intermittently shorting 2-guage speaker cable, or cleaned a grss set of contacts on.  sometimes after saying "this isnt right".

That said, to the above, no. Its reactance. Maybe that’s what you meant but reactance is highly dynamic and also interacts with the hugely reactive load that a speaker poses. Consider this, theoretically, when the voice coil is returning toward its original position, it is provide in back-EMF and therefore a NEGATIVE resistance.

Just saying this is not a simple "measure the ohms on our radio shack meter" sort of thing.
If Radio Shack still existed.


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