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I'd probably lose this bet....

I've been in electronics all my life. There is one facet of audio and the audio community that I am having a difficuilt time with. SPEAKER WIRE! I would BET $$ that there is NO person that could guess which wire he was listening to if the run was, say 20 to each speaker. I would be referring to the VERY BEST cable one could find and compare it with the same gauge of Monster cable or similar. I would guess that the person could not guess it all 20 times. And the other thing that amazes me is that some speaker cable is labeled for the "correct direction". In my archaic way of thinking ac or dc does not know the difference. I might be WAY off base, but if I am I hope someone sheds some light on this for me. ( $1,200 for an 8 foot set of cables??? )B
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It might be interesting to measure the Characteristic Impedances of those cables and see how that interacts with the impedance of your speakers in the vocal range.
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Speakers are pretty benign with nominal 6 ohm dropping to 3.8ohm worst case but have no idea what happens with phase. Part of crossover is in epoxy - cannot tell what values or even what kind it is. Cable on the other hand is pretty strange. It has many (>10) solid strands helical woven on hollow air tube (that way each strand is only in magnetic field of adjacent strands) resulting in about 1" OD in Teflon, but there is also one more "strand" inside that is not solid but contains again about 10 hair-like strands. My non-audio friends (who believe all amps, sources, cables etc. are the same) look at this four 1" thick wires at each speaker (shotgun) but don't say anything. I know THAT look.
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:) I'll bet you do.

Sounds like there is an attempt with the geometry to control CI with that cable.
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