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Re: Mr. Risch, a question on speaker cable resistance.

Higher resistance is not necessarily going to help with capacitance. In the CAT5 recipe, if you reduce the pairs to reduce C, you also increase R as a consequence. This is not necessarily the case for other designs.

The things that tend to happen with higher R cables are:
loss of bass punch and dynamics, more speaker related resonances apparent, and some other subtle things. The bass would be the most noticable. In some cases, due to the reduced damping of the bass, it can sound stronger at some frequencies, and lead to boominess.
Some speaker systems have a very even impedance, and damped bass, with few electrical or electromechanical driver resoannces, and these would affected minimally.

Each system responds slightly differently though.

9 pairs would equal approx. better than 15 ga., which is not too shabby.

Jon Risch


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