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RE: Anti-cables...

I don't claim to be a cable guru but from my understanding of the subject, star-quad for speaker cables is just a waste of copper. The star-quad reduces RFI but this is minimal for speaker cables and it will increase the capacitance which theoretically would attenuate the high frequency signal and might be a problem for some amps. I say theoretically since the cable length probably needs to exceed 50 meters or more for any significant attenuation. Personally, I would just use single runs of 16 AWG or perhaps 16 for the mid-tweeter and 14 for the woofer. You could place a RC network across the tweeter to reduce RFI if that is a concern.
You might want to post on the Cable forum to get some other opinions. Personally I think those guys are whacko but I am sure they would think I'm a troglodyte.



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