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Re: Anyone using small guage magnet wire for speaker wire?

KS,

Small gauge wire has the same effect as that of inserting a series resistance in a drive circuit that uses a heaver gauge wire. It raises system [Qt]. If the wire gets hot, then ...
See the following references for details concerning the effect that speaker cable has on driver output:

Regards,

WHG

Title: Amplifier-Loudspeaker Interfacing
Publication: AES-J, Vol. 28, No. 5 pg. 310 (1980)
URL: http://www.aes.org/journal/search.html
Author: R.A. Greiner
Abstract: Loudspeaker cables are investigated to determine if they exhibit transmission-line characteristics. Lumped representations of cables are suggested with consideration of the effects cable parameters might have on the audio signal being transmitted.

Title: Effects of Cable, Loudspeaker, and Amplifier Interactions
Publication: AES-J, Vol. 39, No 6, pg. 461 (1991)
URL: http://www.aes.org/journal/search.html
Author: Fred E. Davis
Abstract: Loudspeaker cables are among the least understood yet mandatory components of an audio system. How cables work and interact with loudspeaker and amplifier is often based more on presumption and speculation than on fact. The literature on loudspeaker ...



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