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Re: Home Depot

Agreed;

Oxygen free copper is the only way it comes (after 99.8% who cares).

The stuff between speaker cable conductors is called an insulator not a dielectric and it will not make a difference to the sound.

If you are running hundreds of watts per channel then buy thicker cables.

The capacitance between cable conductors of say 5 or 6 metres is measured in picofarads ...and will not affect the sound.

The inductance of cables at audio frequencies is inaudible.

To make a transmission line for audible frequencies you will need cables hundreds of metres long that are continously and instantly variable to cover the range 0f 20hz to 20,000hz.

If you doubt any of the above consider the structure of your speakers crossover network. It has coil windings with a total length of maybe a hundred meters...not to mention the capacitors resistors etc. To think that the minute properties of a straight peice of wire will overcome the relatively enormous difficulties presented by crossovers and speaker drivers and that it will make a difference is well .....more a mind issue.

If that isn't enough consider the very thin circuit board tracks inside your amp and the fact that they are soldered with a tin & lead alloy called solder (not oxygen free molecular aligned silver plated cryogenic tempered copper).

Go to the hardware shop and buy some plain fat all purpose cable and put your hard earned money in the bank or spend it on better speakers. If the cable aint fat enough (looks can be important) then go to the automotive section and buy 20amp twin sheath cable.

If the brain has an expectation of hearing something then it will hear it. I suspect I can hear screaming now.


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