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Default 6 ohm speakers - uprate to 8 ohm?

thirty-six wrote:
On Feb 20, 11:14 am, Martin Brown
wrote:
On 20/02/2012 10:38, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article
,
wrote:
Cheap co-axial wire is
most suitable for remote speaker connects and simple ellipticals or
dual cone ellipticals work well for this.
Co-ax for speakers? You live and learn.

It wouldn't surprise me if some power amplifiers reacted to having coax
wire used to connect to speakers by oscillating wildly. You really want


From which storybook did you find that gem?


Oh its no story. Not a few rather poorly QC'ed or poorly designed amps
will go mad with a capacitor on the output, and coax is a few tens of pF
a foot


NORMALLY You put an RF choke in series with the speaker in the amp
design itself. Some cheapskates leave it out...