Originally Posted by
soundsheavenly
Thanks Barry,
It is good to see a more positive calculation to contrast against my rather pessimistic approach! Looking at the combination of our workings-out, I suppose we could say very broadly that in a typical system with reasonably long cable lengths, the speaker cables could contribute to the system loading (and hence potentially influence the sound) by somewhere between 5% to 50%, depending on the quality of the cables and equipment. Admittedly that is a wide range, but I would suggest that speaker cables DO make a difference and in some systems this can be quite a large difference.
By the way, I also use QED 79 strand cable in my main system now, primarily to minimise the cable resistance issues highlighted in my previous post.
Kind regards, Steve.