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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Wire to Center Channel
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:03:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.140308.1639@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov5.121134.17135@husc3.harvard.edu> <PHILG.92Nov11172455@zug.ai.mit.edu> <1ds8u8INNd2e@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1ds8u8INNd2e@agate.berkeley.edu> kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller) writes:
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- >WHen I was buying my front speakers, I was told that it was important to keep
- >the wire length to the left and right channel the same length. Should I be
- >careful to make my center channel wire the same length as the wire to the
- >left and right, or is that less important? How about wire to the surround
- >speakers?
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- If they aren't the same length the signal can be delayed to the speaker
- with the longer wire. If they were off by as much as a foot, and
- assuming worst case for the wire, you could be looking at significant
- phase shift in the ultrsonic range.
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- Let's take another example. If you were REALLY sloppy in your
- measurements and you mis-cut the wire and had one longer
- than the other by some amount - for example - of 1000 feet. You would
- be getting phase shift on the frequencies in the 1MHz range.
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- Of course with that length of wire resistance would come into effect
- and perhaps cause some other problems, including a level difference.
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- And just in case you aren't sure what I am saying.
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- In other words, for audible ranges wire length doesn't really
- make any difference.
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- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill.vermillion@oau.org
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