SPEAKER CABLES: Science or Snake Oil
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:02 pm
This is an excellent article on speaker cables tested with lab equipment measuring the different responses using twin lead and more exotic designs. Note the response of Mogammi which is basically a coaxial construction for 8 ohm impedance and also the termination filters installed to improve response behaviour.
AUDIOPHILES RECENTLY BEGAN re-examining the performance of every link in the audio playback chain, and before long their attention turned to the lowly loudspeaker cable. In response to demand, a number of companies are producing or distributing new and exotic cables claimed to improve audio power transmission from amplifier to speaker. Pointing to lower resistance and inductance, proponents of the newer cables insist they sound significantly better ("better than an expander!"); however, the subject is controversial, and some hi-fi notables claim performance increase is negligible and the higher capacitance of some new cables can cause amplifier instability and damage.1-4
http://cygnus.ipal.org/mirror/www.passl ... krcabl.htm
AUDIOPHILES RECENTLY BEGAN re-examining the performance of every link in the audio playback chain, and before long their attention turned to the lowly loudspeaker cable. In response to demand, a number of companies are producing or distributing new and exotic cables claimed to improve audio power transmission from amplifier to speaker. Pointing to lower resistance and inductance, proponents of the newer cables insist they sound significantly better ("better than an expander!"); however, the subject is controversial, and some hi-fi notables claim performance increase is negligible and the higher capacitance of some new cables can cause amplifier instability and damage.1-4
http://cygnus.ipal.org/mirror/www.passl ... krcabl.htm