I tend to agree with anhwy61, shadome, almarg and others that feel there is no reason for high capacitance in a cable. To Al's statement "A cable having extreme and/or unusual parameters would be a non-starter for me" - I say "DITTO". The amps mentioned in the OP are neither cheep nor poorly designed. Over the years, I've come to the conclusion that the three main attributes of good cables is: high conductivity, low capacitance and low inductance. Beyond that, IMO, there are a lot of very expensive gimmicks out there that do nothing more than alter or degrade the the original signal. Signal loss and degradation is also the reason that high capacitance cables do not work for high speed data processing....Jim
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
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
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