[Vintage-Audio] Re Speaker Wire Options

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

All I can report are the facts. The wire I used was either 14 or 18 gauge, 
multiple strand conductor. There was a definate delay from amp to speakers 
due to a mismatch somewhere. The Sony TA-1144 amp was SS and rated for 8 
Ohms, as are the Century L-100's. When I replaced the wire with the smaller 
gauge wire the problem vanished. The wire did solve the problem, whatever it 
may have been.

It was not some fancy wire with wild claims, it was simply wire. It did not 
cost much money, it was nothing special.

As far as lows falling off etc. Not with this system!

So as far as any wild claims, fancy wire etc. Not here guys. Just 
inexpensive ordinary wire.


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <w9ran at oneradio.net>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Speaker Wire Options


> Well,
>
> There's a lot of personal opinions about speaker wire, and obviously some 
> of them come from those who make a lot of money by creating demand based 
> on FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt).   I don't buy into any of that, and 
> sorry Duane I don't buy that some small gauge  "speed wire" has superior 
> properties either, at least without knowing more about it's composition, 
> and I have been unable to find any reference to it on the web.
>
> What I do believe is that connecting an amplifier to a load follows the 
> same laws of physics that govern every other electronic interconnection. 
> Resistance in series creates a power loss and the speaker won't sound as 
> loud.  And if the speaker impedance is not constant, then the effect of 
> increased resistance in series will have greater effect at those 
> frequencies where the speaker impedance is highest, altering the sound. 
> It matters not whether your speakers are connected with  zip cord, lamp 
> cord, coaxial cable or barbed wire spaced on vintage glass insulators (see 
> the link below) - as long as the wire gauge chosen provides a sufficiently 
> low resistance for the cable length required, it will do the same job and 
> sound just fine.  Honest testing based on measurable parameters over the 
> years has repeatedly confirmed that there is no difference between the 
> performance of properly selected "cheap wire" and the high priced 
> audiophool wire.
>
> I don't intend to offend anyone - if you think something sounds better, 
> use it!  It's a hobby after all.   For a no nonsense treatment of this 
> topic and the data to back it up, see 
> http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm   OK there's a little nonsense 
> there, but it's toward the end of the page!
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
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