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Foil vs. Wire - Capacatance vs. Inductance

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Posted on January 8, 2021 at 17:01:33
Jimbocky
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I think this is the place to ask my question. There are many cable experts here that know way more than I could ever comprehend.I am afraid it will blow my brink but here we go.

I am running a balanced system. This question is for both speaker cables and interconnect as in balanced. Ribbon vs. Wire/Capacitance vs. Inductance is my question to be clear

Capacitance vs. Inductance.

Foil = higher capacitance. Wire = higher inductance.

I have used foil in crossovers and they were awesome.

I see that with foil interconnects they may overload a system causing uncontrolled oscillation.

What is the advantage and disadvantage or each. I need to find the more detailed explanation but this is the basic one:

http://www.vacuumstate.com/fileupload/Silver_I_Cs_finished_PR.pdf

I am looking very strongly at these speaker cables. Serious lack of skin effect:

https://silversmithaudio.com/fidelium-speaker-cable/

Enclosed is a photo of my last crossovers a built. Going through various wire, Cardas, DIY etc. I understand the sonic differences for sure. But I have never played with ribbon cables for interconnect or speakers.

Thanks.




 

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RE: Foil vs. Wire - Capacatance vs. Inductance, posted on January 9, 2021 at 10:52:47
Palustris
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Location: Cape Cod
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You might get more bang for your buck using decent capacitors. Those are all fine for decoupling a power supply but I wouldn't put them directly in the signal path.

 

iron screws!!!, posted on January 25, 2021 at 07:36:50
lk4330
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Posts: 85
Joined: February 28, 2001
Dear DIYer,

first thing you might acknowledge is that iron „cores" uptune your coil inductance! It is just useless discussing parasitic effects from wiring while having mistakes like this.
If looks did not fool me here: Or is it brass screws you are using to fix your coils?

kindly,

Anton

 

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