Originally posted by: SlickSnake
Posted By sdifox
Did you by any chance replace all the cables all the way from the nuclear plant to your speakers? How about the tiiny cables in your speaker? And the winding of your speaker coils? Face it, speakers are so inefficient, whatever perceived advantage you get from the cable is erased by the 60% loss imposed by the loudspeaker. The only real requirement on speaker cable is really gauge. Gauge of the conductor (not the cable) . Advanced physics my ass.
For what it's worth, your Z1 may be decent cables, but the termination killed off any benefit of a large gauge speaker cable. And calling other people noob really just shows you are a tool.
WTF is magnetic flux tube, time correct winding, multitwist construction????
The electrical transmission lines do not effect the performance of the speaker wire, unless it's full of line noise. Nice try, though. It's speaker wire that we are debating here, atm. Remember the topic?
The speaker wire used in my speakers is a thick gauge wire, but I could not estimate the thickness without cutting one in half to look at it, it's not listed on the wire. It looks to be 10 or 12 gauge. Remember the part where I discussed the need for a thicker gauge speaker wire on my mains? Also, all the speakers in the series have the same size wire in them.
The speaker coils also have a very large gauge wire wrapped around them, hard to tell exactly, but from what I can see of the 12 inch woofers, it's a thick gauge, looks as large as the internal wiring is.
Also, how exactly does the speaker termination effect the gauge in a negative way, considering all the soldered solid wire connections on the speaker and amp in the first place?
The only people I'm calling a n00b have already proved their toolness by mistaking this topic for Hot Deals on Monoprice cables - let's rag on Monster because I can't afford decent speaker wire - tools.
If you spend good money on your HT then thread crap about lamp wire being as good as a quality speaker wire, you really need more help than I can offer or recommend.
And as far as the specifics of the Z series speaker wire construction you could just email Monster Cable and see what they say. Oh wait, bad idea, you won't believe them anyhow.
Or you could write to someone who is neutral like Floyd E. Toole, PH.D. about that. He is Vice President Acoustical Engineering, Harman International Industries, Inc. and works for Harman Kardon. I'm sure he is much more qualified than myself to answer those questions about speaker wire construction.
Here is a condensed white paper he wrote about audio science. For those who don't have too much ADD and can sit through it all, amidst the uncontrollable urge to post more lamp wire crap here.
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