[LAU] Quipping at people's equipment choices (was more than 4 channels for listening? Really?)

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Feb 28 19:57:01 EST 2010


Martin Leese wrote:
> Gwenhwyfaer <gwenhwyfaer at gmail.com>
> 
>> On 26/02/2010, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Don't know about speakers, but I'm using a couple lengths of regular
>>> electric power cord to connect my amp and speakers. ;-)
>> Didn't someone once do some tests and conclude that the absolute
>> zenith of amp/speaker cabling performance could be found in automobile
>> jump leads?
> 
> More seriously, the general advice is to use
> 12 AWG power cord.  Anything thinner and the
> resistance starts to increase.  Anything thicker
> and the self inductance starts to increase.
> 
> This assumes you do not wish to use speaker
> cables as a very expensive tone control.

Good, then I'll stick with my power cord. I have a 10-band equalizer for 
tone control.

-- 
David
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