firthy Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Here's a technical question for the forum. Which performs better: 12-gauge speaker wire or two 16-gauge wires braided together? The 16-gauge wires have been braided thusly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonobo Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 I did one pair for one systerm ...Use 3 single -16 gauge and braided them ,...If you use only 2 wire ,they did not do anything . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistedcrankcammer Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 I did one pair for one systerm ...Use 3 single -16 gauge and braided them ,...If you use only 2 wire ,they did not do anything . Electrons DO NOT KNOW if the wire is braded or not! Look up "PLACEBO" Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Or.... look at: http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm [H] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djk Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 "Electrons DO NOT KNOW if the wire is braded or not! Look up "PLACEBO"" Not entirely correct. In a very long cable you can measure a very large (5dB) loss at 20Khz in ordinary wire vs a star-quad construction. Can you hear a difference in a short length? It doesn't matter to me whether you can hear (or not hear), but I can hear differences in wire in short lengths (around 10 foot). Is it a big difference, no. The star-quad configuration was invented for use in telephone cables back in the ’30s, mainly to reject induced noise. In speaker wire applications it can reduce inductance. PS Star-quad is twisted, not braided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I uses braided IXOS cable I picked up a few years ago. It uses two conductors and a third that has no wire (it's a PVC ICC dialetric, doncha know. In my casual listening, I find that it breaks the paradigm of cable technology by bringing together the advantages of all types of cable geometry into one design.[] Only two conductors per channel ( + & -), but I guess someone could double-up and biwire with 'em. So there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I once knew a twisted girl with braided hair like that.... Sorry... off topic... [6] [H] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Was she biwired? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechMan Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I once knew a twisted girl with braided hair like that.... Sorry... off topic... Did she have a Twisted Sister by chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironsave Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 I once knew a twisted girl with braided hair like that.... Sorry... off topic... Did she have a Twisted Sister by chance? Thank you very much........ [A] Now I MUST go home and listen to "Stay Hungry"...... (The power of suggestion.....) [Y] Sorry to get off topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slovell Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 She's probably single-ended and prefers a biased tube. Forgive me, I just could not stop myself. Sam [6] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 ...and likes to play when she gets a heater going... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted September 18, 2010 Moderators Share Posted September 18, 2010 ...and likes to play when she gets a heater going... But does gauge really matter ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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