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Much more complex question than you can imagine.

IF all other things were equal (dielectric materials, quality of conductors, freedom from conductor crystalline stress, physical and mechanical damping, etc., etc., then theory would tend to support the multiple insulated conductors as a more accurate signal transfer component.

But seldom are all other things equal.

The reasoning for the above answer (again, with all other things being equal), is that the inductance of the multiple insulated conductors type cable would be lower (especially if the wires were connected so that the reds were all one polarity, and the blacks were all the other).

Inductance has proven to be a more critical speaker cable parameter than capacitance (as long as the capacitance is not high enough to trigger amplifier instability, etc., such as with NAIM power amps), thus lowering it provides more benefit than keeping the capacitance low.


Jon Risch


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