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Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125614 03/02/06 02:08 AM
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Dan, to answer your question, it definitely can be worth it in the right situation. Since silver speaker wire will obviously make for a "bright" sound, as compared to the "warmth" of copper(don't even need to listen, you can tell just by looking)it can make a huge night and day improvement with warm receivers such as Marantz, but would be a disaster with, for example, a Yamaha receiver, which the author should have pointed out.

Okay, back to reality; the article is of course pure drivel and the author apparently doesn't have a clue about audio technology. Silver has a slightly lower resistance than copper, as has been pointed out, but the difference is negligible; for example a 21' silver wire would have about the same resistance as a 20' copper wire of the same gauge. The main difference is that silver is about 80 times as expensive as copper and it makes no sense to use it instead of copper to simply act as a guiderail for the electromagnetic wave that carries the audio power/information to the speaker.

Another point where the author demonstrates his lack of knowledge is when he suggests that there's no problem in having the two conductors widely separated. Inductance in speaker wire is directly proportional to the distance between the centers of the two conductors and is no problem with the usual closely spaced lampcord. Leaving them inches apart would greatly increase the inductance, causing a loss of high frequencies. That sort of speaker wire might indeed sound "different".


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Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125615 03/02/06 03:36 AM
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Alright, everyone please answer me these questions

I have plain ol' blue jeans cable copper speaker cable instead of hi-fi speaker cable:

1) Am I going to hell because of my ignorance of obviously higher-quality speaker cable?
2) Is my "cheap" speaker cable going to cause me to contract AIDS?
3) I don't like spending exhorbant amounts of money on speaker cables. Am I going to get a spanking?


My cables...err...my AXIOMS sound fine to me.



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Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125616 03/02/06 03:38 AM
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blue jeans cables are very good. They make a fine product with no BS and don't charge an arm and a leg for it. Ya done good.

Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125617 03/02/06 03:41 AM
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I cannot express fully how weary, utterly, I am of hearing these gentlemen argue about speaker wires.


Yes, let's get back on pseudo-political topics and your sex life instead.

Bren R.

Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125618 03/02/06 03:43 AM
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I don't like spending exhorbant amounts of money on speaker cables. Am I going to get a spanking?


If you're not willing to spend an exorbinant amount of money on cables, you're probably not going to want to spend it on the spanking, either.

Bren R.

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#125619 03/02/06 03:53 AM
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>>If you're not willing to spend an exorbinant amount of money on cables, you're probably not going to want to spend it on the spanking, either.

You beat me to it...

... again.


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Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125620 03/02/06 05:07 AM
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HAHAHA, that was funny.
I think I'm done here with this Axiom hoax.

Attention everybody:

You are an idiot if you spend thousands of dollars on speakers you have never heard.

[censored] China and America-haters everywhere.

This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3,...

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Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125621 03/02/06 06:25 AM
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I believe twists are usually put into cable pairs to prevent crosstalk. If you look at the 4 twisted pairs in a Cat5/5e cable you will notice that each pair has a slightly different tpi (twists-per-inch) ratio. This further cuts down on crosstalk between the pairs. Not sure if this is relevant on speaker cables where there is one signal per cable pair, especially since they are not (I hope) bundled.


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#125622 03/02/06 08:04 AM
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Al-right-ty then.

Bren R.

Re: My speaker cable quibble
#125623 03/02/06 03:18 PM
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If ever there was an 'alcohol-assisted' post, that's the one. Bren, you're spot on.

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