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- From: yoda@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Terry Lee)
- Subject: Re: *** SPEAKER WIRES ***
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.220859.7009@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
- References: <9209041953.AA14050@kiwi.tropix.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:08:59 GMT
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- Just pick up any high quality speaker cable. Something like monster cable
- will do. Don't be fooled by the thickness though. It's the same gauge as
- any other cable, but it has a patented clear casing that makes the wire
- appear to look thicker. But it's decent stuff in any case.
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- It's more important to keep your cables as short as possible. Ideally,
- you want to have you power amp in between the speakers so the cables
- can be as short as possible. The problem with cables is they have a
- certain amount of inductance that makes them a low pass filter.
- Thus, some people will argue that a poor cable will round off the high
- ends near 20,000 Hz. Most of us can't hear much beyond 15,000 Hz, so
- this may or may not be valid. But shortening the cable is the best
- way to reduce inductance.
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