Speaking of audiophools

At audio frequencies, it's usually irrelevant. When the transmission line gets to be longer than, say, 1/10 wavelength or so, then you start considering things like impedance matching and such.

To just get raw amps into the speaker, though, any wire that's rated for the amps will do - for speakers, they don't even have to be twin-lead - you could lay a couple of random pieces of wire on the floor, and the sound will be indistinguishable from the highest-end audiophool crap, unless they _insist_ on a certain amount of distortion, for example, to give that rich, golden toob sound.

Cheers! Rich

Skin effect @ 20kHz does start to influence the larger cable diameters used for speakers.

A few cents a foot won't buy you much !

Graham

18 Gauge zip cord ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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One wavelength at 30 kHz, in this case, would amount to

3*10^8/30000 = 3*10^4 m. or 30km. Quite a bit loner than regular speaker wires! i

14/2 romex!

John

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:18:39 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Absolutely shitty. Even Monster cable imitations are better.

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:42:48 -0700, John Larkin Gave us:

Absolutely solid. Very unmanageable. Pretty lame too! If you are buying it that way, you might as well get 12/2.