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Please refer to the charts and conclusion by none other than Nelson Pass of Pass Labs in the link below:https://www.passlabs.com/technical_article/speaker-cables-science-or-snake-oil/ The impedance of the speaker wires are very small compared to the impedance of the speaker. But it can become an issue when one uses long speakers cables. As a rule of thumb shorter is better. Typical values for 18 G speaker wires are resistance (R) 0.014 Ohms/ft, inductance (L) 0.21 micro Henries /ft, and capacitance (C) 28 pico Farads /ft. Even if the nominal impedance of your speaker is 4 Ohms, RLC values for short cables (< 6 ft) are very small. Keep in mind, capacitive and inductive reactances are frequency dependent. Two important items in cable design are L and R since they impede the flow of electrons between the amplifier and the loudspeaker. Resistance causes loss at all frequencies while inductance causes loss proportional to the frequency. I am even scared to say capacitance is not important in the audio band (20 Hz- 20 kHz) because it might offend some of those who have speaker cables size of my thighs! Anyway, if you are young and have very good hearing above 5 kHz, I would like you to try ribbon cables (ex: Goertz) as an alternative. One of my buddies did this test many years ago. He found roll-off of high frequencies on certain LPs when using speaker wires with circular cross section. However, ribbon cables with rectangular cross section did not rolled off high frequency content. Again, this phenomenon was observed only with a handful of LPs. This was before CD was invented. Now that we are older, I don’t think it really matters anymore. AC current tend to flow towards periphery of conductors with circular cross section and this is know as skin effect. Thus, poor use of available copper. Instead, it is better to have a bundle of small gauge wires. As Nelson Pass concludes, "Who am I to dispute the feelings of audiophiles who, evaluating any cable in the context of program source, amplifier, speaker, and listening room, decide they can hear the difference?" I concur. |
Here is the Wire World product catalog- although without prices... https://wireworldaudio.com/wct-product-catalog/ |
And here is the pricing to go along with the WIRE WORLDS product catalog: https://wireworldaudio.com/retail-price-list/ |
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