True enough.2.5 will be higher resistance.
Strangled highs, sucked-out mids, muted lows, less expansive soundstage, no 3D imaging, less cohesion, a thinness of reproduction directly correlated to cable thickness... I could go onTrue enough.
And we all agree that 2.5 is more than enough to handle the required current.
So if we're specifying 6mm, why?
What actual difference would we expect to hear by using 2.5 instead?
You should've been a reviewer DougStrangled highs, sucked-out mids, muted lows, less expansive soundstage, no 3D imaging, less cohesion, a thinness of reproduction directly correlated to cable thickness... I could go on
Hi everyone
Keen to hear you're recommendations on speaker cable? I have just bought some PMC twenty5 24 speakers, paired with a Moon 240i.
Let me know your thoughts?
Paul
I would simply buy Cordial CLS 240 speaker cable.
They’re very good and incredibly cheap (by audiophile standards).
- Cable cross section: 2 x 4.0 mm²
- Conductor design: 225 x 0.15 mm CU blank
- Conductor resistance: 4.95 Ohm/km
- Diameter: 9.5 mm
- Weight: 160 g/m
Cordial is a German pro audio cable manufacturer.
Because 2.5 mm is higher resistance. It has nothing to do with current handling capability but more to do with the damping factor of the amplifier being transferred to the speaker enabling it to control the speaker properly. You also don’t want the frequency response to track the speaker impedance curve.True enough.
And we all agree that 2.5 is more than enough to handle the required current.
So if we're specifying 6mm, why?
What actual difference would we expect to hear by using 2.5 instead?
I eventually got my answer.....that speaker cables make difference - and the difference is audible.Because 2.5 mm is higher resistance. It has nothing to do with current handling capability but more to do with the damping factor of the amplifier being transferred to the speaker enabling it to control the speaker properly. You also don’t want the frequency response to track the speaker impedance curve.
I speak from personal experience as always.When you can provide independent verifiable evidence, then you can say cables make a difference, until then your claims mean nothing. (See the video I posted earlier in the thread)
Bill