Needs a dip in liquid nitrogen I reckon On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 2:24 pm John Gardner, wrote: > Probably not low-oxygen copper, eh? "8) > > On 4/6/18, Mike wrote: > > On 05/04/2018 23:57, Bob Blick wrote: > >> A very long time ago I needed to wire some loudspeakers and used two > >> strands of some salvaged single conductor insulated solid wire, fairly > >> heavy gauge. When I later replaced it with regular speaker cable of > >> similar gauge, the system sounded better. I wonder now if the wires > >> vibrated enough because of the electromagnetic effect that it caused > >> resonances. My ears were pretty good back then. > >> > >> Perhaps I should do some testing and see if I can measure the effect. > >> > >> Bob > >> > > > > The closer the pair of wires, the better the coupling and the lower the > > inductance. If your speaker cable was e.g. 3 meters long (~10ft) then > > they could be adding around 1 Ohm inductive reactance at the upper end > > of the audio frequency range, if the wires were spaced apart. > > > > Mike > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .