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In Reply to: Skin Effect posted by lrizzo on December 1, 2014 at 09:08:19:
Q: Should skin effect be taken in to consideration when looking to purchase cables?
A: Yes. It's often considered a good rule of thumb to choose line-level interconnect cables that feature maximum 22 AWG or smaller solid core copper conductors, or 24 maximum AWG or smaller solid core silver conductors. The same applies to speaker cables, however multiple individually insulated conductors are often bundled together in order to avoid audible skin effect while increasing the aggregate gauge for optimized driver damping/current delivery. Sometimes there are a number of solid core conductors in a bundle that are larger than 22/24 AWG maximum, but they tend to be carefully considered in relation to the smaller gauge conductors, especially phase related issues, cable resonances, and the essential sonic signature including the tonality of a particular cable build. That said, there are many good sounding cables that don't follow the rules. Listener preferences and/or compromised budgets tend to allow for cables with larger gauge stranded conductors which tend to mitigate audible skin effect often at the expense of coloration/distortion due to strand jumping and various strand lay geometries.
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