Originally Posted by
YNWaN
Contentious, but that is my experience over the years.
To sort of summarise my experience, if the cables you are using remove something (bass, treble etc.) then they are actively doing something wrong. If your system therefore sounds boomy or peaky (etc) then it is at fault and the cables are merely letting that be audible.
With speaker cable it's just make it as short as practical for you and use thick cable. The longer the cable the thicker it will need to be for the same low resistance obviously. That's about it for me on speaker cable.
I think I may be paraphrasing you here Mark but a thin cable with high resistance will allow the speakers impedance curve to alter its frequency response and so yes, thin/long cables actually will sound different to low resistance ones, however, this is because of the cables resistance allowing the speaker itself to interact with this resistance and hence kind of generate its own extra colouration. Lack of damping factor in other words!
A mate once bought some of that DNM single strand stuff an was saying it definitely sounded different but he wasn't sure if good or bad.... I went round for a listen with a few tools and yep it sounded different! Not in a good way I thought. I noticed just how thin this stuff was and so measured it.. it was adding over 1 Ohm for only about 4 meters of cable! Instant almost SET like absence of damping factor.
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