In Reply to: Berning ZH270 Speaker Cable Suggestions posted by Beatlebum on April 7, 2016 at 07:57:14:
With OTLs, I have found that speaker cables with low characteristic impedance work best. Among such cables is the Goertz ribbon type, or most any ribbon type cable. I use Goertz silver ribbons. Going silver might represent an upgrade from the copper, depending upon your personal taste. Other cables with low-ish characteristic impedance are MITs with termination boxes or Transparent with termination boxes. (The boxes usually add capacitance.) IMO, stay away from Nordost cables which tend to go for low capacitance, which usually results in very high characteristic impedance. I've tried two Nordost types with my Atma amps and both sounded terrible.
Characteristic Z = sq rt (L/C). So, if you can find out inductance and capacitance per foot, you can calculate CZ. However, the value of CZ is independent of cable length.
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- Goetz is a good choice - Lew 11:11:11 04/07/16 (6)
- RE: Goetz is a good choice - Beatlebum 13:50:58 04/07/16 (5)
- RE: Goetz is a good choice - Lew 18:11:16 04/07/16 (4)
- Analysis Plus? - Beatlebum 06:45:08 04/08/16 (3)
- Did you find such a post authored by me??? - Lew 07:11:30 04/08/16 (2)
- My mistake! Sorry for the confusion! (nt) - Beatlebum 08:19:19 04/08/16 (1)
- I was quite prepared to believe I might have forgotten. - Lew 10:12:57 04/08/16 (0)