KnuKoncept speaker wire

[ClaudeJ1]

10 hours ago, jimjimbo said:

Well, really?

I think I hear it, therefore, it is.

[ClaudeJ1]

A null tester would put all this delusional BS to rest, but no one bothers with it, since the wires are cheaper than the tester. It's a quasi-religious experience at best.

[glens]

With loudspeakers at north of 100 dB efficiency, it ought to be possible to wire the speaker across the same "polarity" leads of a parallel run of the (any) two wires in question.  If there is an audible difference in the signal available at the far end it should appear as a difference in potential.  Certainly an oscilloscope would give a visual if it can't be heard, but if it can't be heard maybe it ain't enough to mess with anything beyond "adequate" anyway.

 

Anybody got a 'scope, a digital camera, and both fancy and plain wire along with a few minutes?  Could maybe get this baby put to bed once and for all by at least showing the difference in potential at the "working" ends.

[richieb]

 

=== like it or not neither you or anyone else will ever put the speaker/IC “wire” issue to bed. Same with oil threads on the auto/bike forums, ain’t gonna happen. Goes back to the caveman days when they would sit around a fire to discuss the best type of rock or tree limb is best at killing tonite’s dinner. It’s just something we humans do. So - gather your neighbors around your hipster fire pit and discuss wire, oil, rocks and the like. Then take bets on which neighbor strangles you with 12, 14 or 16 gauge wire —

[glens]

Yeah, someone could post a screenshot of a 3 microvolt potential between the two types of speaker wire (while, if either of the wires were connected to a speaker it would be producing 115 dB at 15'), and assuming the trace wasn't even the result of that next-door radio station, someone else would post a "see, I told you so" response, and another would as well, but having the opposite reason for doing so.