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RE: Why solid cable instead of braided wire?

Posted by mojul (A) on October 24, 2024 at 10:42:07

In Reply to: Why solid cable instead of braided wire? posted by Mr Steed on October 23, 2024 at 20:54:42:

Be sure that your Cat5 uses teflon and not PVC!
PVC has memory effect and smears the sound due to the high dielectric constant and by the way cotton has the lowest dielectric constant.

One single core Cat5 (24AWG) is enough as speaker cable to drive (0,25-0.5W) horn speakers but not enough for speakers with higher drive effect.
Cat5 is plenty enough for tweeters in x-overs, but bass's needs a little more, about 20AWG.

I have made dirt cheap interconnects using 24AWG Cat cables with the KLE Innovation classic harmony copper bullet plug design and they sound much better than many expensive commercial interconnects.

I learned about single core cables and saved a lot of money by reading "The SuperCables Cook Book" by Allen Wright:
"As it's only the low frequencies that can sink deep into a conductor and still maintain energy - they are the ones suffering major time smear when THICK cables are used for interconnect or speaker energy transfer."

You can read about DIY Cat5 braided speaker cables and single core interconnects at VH Audio (he uses KLE Innovation plugs on interconnects ;-).

https://www.venhaus1.com/diycatfivecables.html
https://www.venhaus1.com/diysilverinterconnects.html
mojul

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