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In Reply to: Re: Recommendation may be too strong of a word (long) posted by audiophile36@aol.com on April 17, 2004 at 12:02:16:
[ The first is what makes a cable a glorified zip cord? ]The basic geometry and the materials. A simple twisted pair is not that different than a straight untwisted parallel run (zip cord) in terms of the overall inductance.
[ Any cable that uses PVC maybe? ]
Nope, that would only be a portion of the reason, as noted above.
[ What are the compromises of the CC89259 speaker cable? ]
Stranded wire, ETP copper, and the total amount of copper, as well as FEP instead of TFE teflon, and finally, flexibility.
It would be better if the center wire was a solid wire instead of stranded, and better if the braid were a foil, however, this is not a huge thing, see:
http://www.AudioAsylum.com/forums/t2/messages/415.html
about half way down, for the reason. The small radius involved keeps any strand jumping forces (whatever you wish to ascribe the to) down to a minimum compared to a 12 ga. stranded wire.It would be nice if the CC89259 cable had some 6 nines copper, but the ETP Belden uses is a good grade of ETP, and runs toward the bottom limits of that grade for purity.
Two 89259 coaxial cables Cross-Connected equal approx. 13 1/2 ga. This is not as low in DCR as some cables, but the easy solution is to double up, or Quad Cross Connect a set of 4 coaxial 89259 cables, for even lower inductance, and a total equivalent ga,. of approx. 10 1/2 ga.
TFE has even less sonic signature than FEP, and so would be more ideal.
[ I notice you discribe PVC as having a sonic signature that add bass and smoothes out the high's, what is your view on the sonic's of Teflon? ]
The errors that teflon commits, it's 'sonic signature', is much smaller than any other solid dielectric I am aware of, including PE of any type. The foamed variety has even less than the solid type, and so, has very little deviation from neutrality. What little there is, is along the following lines: a very slight bloom in the midbass, and a small touch of upper range brightness. However, it needs to be kept in mind that these are a fraction of the apparent amplitude of the deviations of most other dielectrics.
[ Also how does say the cross connected 89259 compare to 12awg zip cord in term's of inductance? ]
I have posted this before many times, a search wouldn't have been that difficult.
The best 12 ga. zip cord I know if in terms of inductance has approx. 0.23 uH per foot, the CC89259 has less than 0.067 uH per foot, thus it has less than 29% of the inductance of 12 ga. zip cord.
Jon Risch
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- Re: Recommendation may be too strong of a word (long) - Jon Risch 13:41:45 04/18/04 (1)
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