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Default help with Speaker wiring...

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:47:07 +0100, Eeyore
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John Larkin wrote:

With an 8 ohm resistive speaker load, 4 ohms of cable resistance drops
volume by almost 4 dB. 4 ohms of reactance only loses about 1 dB.


I'd be interested to see a real world speaker cable with 4 ohms of either.


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a 200 foot run of 20 AWG from the civilized world will get the
resistance, but at about 20nF/foot required to get to 4 ohms at
10kHz, it's not likely that most speaker cable will exhibit that
much reactance.


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JF