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| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Thanks once more, Kijanki. Your post just above is excellent IMO, as usual.As far as the audibility of dielectric absorption in audio cables is concerned, my reading of various technical and anecdotal references to that effect I've seen over the y... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Thank you, Kijanki. I was just about to post that numerous references can be found on the web indicating that the dielectric constant of Teflon is in the vicinity of 2.0, or even a bit more, not 1.0. Also, the 70-85% figure Geoff cited is of cours... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Kijanki, thanks for your characteristically excellent technical input.Williewonka 8-24-2017 Let’s take the IC connecting two components as an example...- the signal conductor has an AC signal on it- the neutral conductor is connected to the neutra... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Jim (Jea48), Jc4659, and Kijanki, thanks very much for your kind words.Jim (Jea48), I’m not sure if your most recent post is suggesting that I try to explain why Geoff’s comment is incorrect, or that I refrain from doing so to avoid having this he... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Thanks, Jerry!Steve, when I refer to currents in the two conductors that are equal except that they are moving in opposite directions (i.e., current in one conductor is moving toward the load when current in the other conductor is moving toward th... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Hi Steve,You raise good questions, which get into some complexities that are not obvious."The signal," and the energy that it conveys, is conducted through neither of the conductors. It is conducted in the form of an electromagnetic wave, which pr... | |
| connect 2 different wire gauge to pos and neg speaker terminal Good comments by Steve (Williewonka). I would add that if the + and - conductors referred to in the OP are not in close proximity, and preferably twisted together in some manner, the inductance of the cable will be considerably increased. If the i... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Mac, regarding your question I’ll just second the good answers provided by Bill (Grannyring) and Kenny.Regarding 2.83 volts vs. 1 watt, power into a resistive load equals volts squared divided by ohms. So 2.83 volts into 8 ohms is 1 watt, but 2.83... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Cal3713, thanks for the additional info. I read through the nicely detailed description of the Coincident Pure Reference Extreme speakers at the Coincident website, and I have the following comments regarding the possibilities you mentioned:1)I w... | |
| PHONO PREAMP Rhodes, from a technical standpoint the Sutherland PhonoBlock appears to be suitable for use in your system. Regarding output impedance specifically, John Atkinson’s measurements indicate "200 ohms across the audioband," which is fine for use in c... | |
| Unequal Speaker Cable Lengths - a solution from Cerious Technologies Most cable parameters and cable effects are proportional to length. That includes resistance, inductance, capacitance, the resistance rise at high frequencies caused by skin effect, the effects of dielectric absorption, and propagation delay. (... | |
| PHONO PREAMP Based on your system description thread it appears that the outputs of the phono stage would be driving the analog inputs of a Benchmark DAC2 HGC. The analog inputs of the Benchmark (which are only provided as unbalanced RCAs) have a specified imp... | |
| Directionality of wire Geoffkait 8-19-2017 Huh? Not sure what you guys are arguing about. Jim and I are not arguing, Geoff. We're having what I would consider to be an intelligent discussion of sincere and intelligent questions. That despite the fact that our opinio... | |
| Nitty Gritty has closed Yes, that's very sad news, Mofi. A few years ago I dealt with the woman who ran the company in recent times, in connection with a repair and overhaul I needed on my Nitty Gritty machine that has now served me well for 25+ years. She was a pleasu... | |
| Directionality of wire Jea48 8-18-2017Rereading Bob’s post he says solid core wire is extremely directional. He is speaking of the wire itself. His comments in his post are about running the direction of the hot/signal and ground/return in opposite directions, as you we... |