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In Reply to: If you were sent 5 or 6 speak cable sets to evaluate.... posted by jneutron on February 14, 2007 at 10:10:09:
"What length should the cables be? Is 5 foot sufficient? 10?"I consider 8 foot to be the maximum before a speaker cable becomes nominally long, but 10 footers may accommodate some folks needs.
"What termination is most popular? Would lugs be enough?"
While most folks tend to prefer spades (myself included), I think an arduous comparitive listening test of 5 or 6 sets of speaker cables would be best served by quick-disconnect BFA connectors (AudioQuest offers some fine sounding BFA banana's, BTW). If spades were selected, a universal fit type should be selected to accommodate 1/4'' or 5/16'' binding posts at either end of the cable.
"Would you be willing to try them all, and fill out a review of some type."
I would think any participant should agree to such.
"And then, pay for shipment to the next person in the program."
Since it would be a non-commercial endeavour, I think all participants should agree to such.
"Please respond only if you'd like to do this"
Sorry for a disregard the request, as I'm not interested in participating (other than tossing in these opines). It's an interesting prospect, though. I'd be interested in reading the reports.
Follow Ups:
Been a while, eh? Happy New year.RE: banana's: That sounds very good, but I have two worries..
1. Cost. as of now, I have been considering 3 trials of 3 pairs, that's 36 banana's.
2. Resistance. For the lower guage wires, I really am worried about total resistance. If a load is 4 ohms, 1% loop total is 40 milliohms..2.5 per foot means #14 exceeds what I'd like, #12 gives me 12.8 milliohms over 4 connections, #10 gives me 22 milliohms over 4 connections. I'm not sure banana's can do that repeatedly.
Since I hate the concept of rapid switched testing, I want people to take a week or two..too long, and we all die of old age, too short, I simply do not like.
I hope spade lugs are not too much of an inconvienience.
Duster: ""
If spades were selected, a universal fit type should be selected to accommodate 1/4'' or 5/16'' binding posts at either end of the cable.""That information is very useful. Thank you.
Re: reports..I think a generic report form should be devised, and it should be posted online. I have no desire to moderate or otherwise affect the reports. But that brings up an interesting point...feedback on the wires must not be able to specify which wire does what, as that could contaminate results further down the road. I gotta think about that..
Cheers, John
Yes please. The larger spades are important these days.
Regards,
Geoff
it doesn't make sense to me to give feedback to anyone except you UNTIL everyone has had a crack at the cables, if then.
That's probably the only way to do it. I had in mind something bjh had told me, that he would send me the results, which I would be able to approve or not, I guess depending on some criteria of mine..I told him I didn't want the results directly, but my "charge" for the wires was for him to post here in cables, removing me from the path.But with multiple results, I guess the only way is to channel them to me.
When complete, I can post it all..any errors or changes can be simply spotted by the "subjects"..guaranteeing correctness.
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