Would you change your amp selection knowing...?


OK - so this thread was promted by some comments on another thread - not wanting to hijack that thread I created this one...

ISSUE: some high current designed amps have an issue with speaker cables that have a high capacitance.
- the amp can be driven to self destruction because of internal oscilation caused by the high capacitance of the speaker cable
- this does NOT apply to Tube amps - i.e. to my knowledge

The amps I know of that are affected in this way are Ayre, Gryphon and NAIM
- only NAIM warns of this up front AND instruct their dealers to let customers know about it

So why don’t other brands warn about the possibility?

QUESTION:
- would it put you off?
- would you select a different amp if the manufacturer warned of this "issue" up front?

Cheers



williewonka
@kijanki                                    
No, I am saying just the opposite.

I had an integrated amp from NVA (Nene Valley Audio) from the UK that specified low C interconnects and speaker wires.


They have some of the best interconnects for the money I have heard in my system rivaling AN silver cables for 10x the money. 

The Goertz cables are flat and the conductors are closely coupled so as to increase the capacitance.

This is done to reduce the Characteristic Impedance of the cable. Their cables approach 4 and 8 ohms (depending on cable selection) and so reduce reflections in the cable depending on the impedance of the speaker.

Some may suggest that reflections at audio frequencies are a non-issue, but measurements that I and a team I was associated with (using a Time Delay Reflectometer) suggest that if you can get the cable to have a low CI, it will be more revealing.

So there can be a reason for high capacitance cables, and amp designers need to suck it up. The old Polk Audio wire was high capacitance and did mess with unstable amps of the era. But as at least one pointed out here, ESLs are capacitive as well and are often driven by amplifiers :)
Zobel network seems a solution to a deliberate  poor cable design so consumer pays more than once
Factual equivalent of alpha core with zobel is just simple power wire half buck per foot