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RE: voodoo

In Reply to: RE: voodoo posted by Cpk on July 2, 2012 at 08:45:22:

Hi Cpk,

Thanks for your input. It's not difficult to understand the issue when the notion of cable reactance is recognized. A double run of asymmetrical geometry speaker cables even when connecting non-bi-wire loudspeakers will create parallel circuits with dissimilar LCR characteristics. That's not my idea of a good thing from an audiophile perspective. While not specifically pertaining to joining asymmetrical geometry bi-wire cables at both ends, according to AudioQuest:

Asymmetrical geometry bi-wire cables even when connected via a proper bi-wire configuration may affect the coherency of bi-wire loudspeakers low-pass and high-pass passive crossover networks:

Text taken from AudioQuest White Paper (see link below):

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BiWiring and Cable Geometry:

When BiWiring, the two (bass and treble) cables must either be identical, or have essentially identical geometries. If the cables have different geometries they will have different capacitance and inductance. Capacitance and inductance are the values used to create a loudspeaker’s low-pass and high-pass filter networks, together making a crossover. Having different values in the two cables effectively redesigns the crossover… not a good thing! The integrity and coherence of the speaker will be compromised.

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See link to AudioQuest white paper PDF file:

http://www2.audioquest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Undrst (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Using A Bi-Wire configured pair of speaker cable for a single wire application... - Julien43 08:32:52 06/30/12 (11)

Thanks Guys!! - Julien43 15:30:43 06/30/12 (1)

RE: Thanks Guys!! - Duster 16:26:51 06/30/12 (0)

RE: Using A Bi-Wire configured pair of speaker cable for a single wire application... - Duster 12:13:33 06/30/12 (7)

Are you *seriously* trying to say... - rlw 01:21:35 07/01/12 (6)

RE: *seriously* - Cpk 16:14:06 07/01/12 (5)

Ahem........... - jihad 07:23:32 07/02/12 (4)

RE: voodoo - Cpk 08:45:22 07/02/12 (3)

RE: voodoo - Duster 12:26:50 07/02/12 (0)

You'd be wasting your time with this idiot. - carcass93 11:06:42 07/02/12 (0)

you used the word "frequency" - jihad 11:02:31 07/02/12 (0)

RE: Using A Bi-Wire configured pair of speaker cable for a single wire application... - gshepardbuster 11:17:23 06/30/12 (0)

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RE: voodoo - Duster 12:26:50 07/02/12 (0)

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