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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo.
Post Subject: A misunderstandingPosted by anthony on: 10/7/2017
 Romy the Cat wrote:
Well, the wire paralleling is a common thing. This is where the idea or Litz wire come from when they use many isolated wires for less them skin depth. It doe serve theoretical purpose but not always server sonic purpose. I have a friend of my who made for me very cool Litz cables use so very expensive 450 lead wire. He uses natural cotton fabric jacket and the whole cable feels very high-endish. The problem is that the cable sound like shit and never use it. Anyhow, everyone use in speakers internally 10-12ga wire. I do not say that speaker interconnect not important. After all I am the person what have the whole system wired with vintage Dominos and I have good reasons for it. I however found "my" cables before I made Macondo. So, I did not experiment with it a lot. Your point about resistance is well taken but I personally would go for sound quality intend then going for lower DCR.


Romy, what I said in my earlier post was that I had made a mistake with calculation of the DCR losses for parallel speaker cables i.e. the 8 parallel sets in my Bass Cannons.  I was adding the DCR to the amplifier load when in fact the DCR should have been diminishing because of the parallel driver wiring.  The end result is that I really do not need the huge fat cables and that something as small as 18awg is going to be just fine.

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