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From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Speaker wire: reader reactions - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 11:29:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 14 11:29:00 1983
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Just a quick agreement with Dave.  Without some controls on how the test was
done, the results mean little.

Any interesting thing to notice, by the way, is that the reported differences,
mainly in imaging and a little in transient response, seem most closely corre-
lated with phase distortions, and possibly with differences in transient
response.  It is difficult to see how there could be any significant variation
in the wires discussed - well, theoretically the Litz wire could do better,
but I doubt you are going to get any effect out to a couple of 100 Khertz;
I can't see much anywhere in a range that the speakers will respond to, not
to mention human ears.  There remains a possibility:  Were the wires all the
same length, and, in particular, if they were long were they wound into coils?
Putting a nice inductor in between your amp and your speaker would certainly
screw up the phase and high-frequency characteristics.
							-- Jerry
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