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I'm going to reread that article tomorrow when I have a fresh mind. Some of his assertions just do not make sense from an electrical engineering stand point. Its late and maybe I'm missing something.

Smaller diameter cable (wire) has a higher resistance per unit length than does large diameter cable. A higher resistance means that you use up more of your power as heat in the wire rather than energy in your speaker. And, the input impedance to the amplifier is a little higher.

His listening test was not as scientific as we would like in today's environment (ie. double blind).

I suspect that what he was seeing was a result of the amplifiers response to its driving point impedance as a function of the difference cable. Different amplifier, you could get a different result.

Anyhow, I'm going to reread it tomorrow. This evening, something just doesn't read right. LOL!!!

Just one man's engineering opinion.

The Rat.