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RE: Is this true???

Posted by madisonears (A) on June 17, 2018 at 20:49:10

In Reply to: Is this true??? posted by Tweaker456 on June 17, 2018 at 16:49:08:

You probably can't detect any HF air due to all those Silmic caps!

A twisted pair of 18ga is hardly adequate for high current delivery to woofers, but is fine for mids and tweeters. Very loosely twisted or spaced parallel pairs is okay, but a loose random weave of multiple conductors is better.

A twisted pair of 18ga is too large for IC's. 24ga is preferable. Twisted pair is the ideal configuration.

Just because cable sharks make tons of fancy wires and indiscriminate or misinformed people buy them doesn't make them good.

To prevent your head from exploding, let's allow that there is some factor, not skin effect, that is detrimental to high frequencies (and their myriad manifestations such as "air") when conductor size exceeds an optimum. Critical people who listen carefully know that it exists, and you are welcome to name it something else. Like so many other aspects of accurate audio reproduction, perhaps it cannot be fully explained by a known formula or even shown to exist as a physical phenomenon. My contention is that our crude measurements and ham-fisted implementation of electrical principles does not allow for the delicacy and intricacy of transmission of analog musical information.

Peace,
Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9

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