Bought some 14/2 “speaker wire” from Home Depot
Zavato, Im disappointed that pic isn’t you... you ought to be ashamed of yourself for misleading me like that. You can get your AP cables cut down and Re-terminated. You can end up with 2 pairs and do a shotgun run. One with spades the other with bananas... https://analysis.plus/retermination-services/ |
Mr. felixa
Skin effect in audio, is about misunderstanding of the fenomena. The Skin effect, is mostly about two criteria that do not apply to speaker cables: 1. High power at high (audio high) Fr. with full power BW. In Audio, the last two octaves are mainly harmonies. They are 20 dB or less of the average SPL. Most thicker cables, that can handle power as high as 20A @ 8 ohms = 3,200W need to handle way less (32W!) and the -20 dB is 100 times less, so it's about 0.32W of 0.2A If you check on the AWG table: https://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm A #12 AWG wire has a BW of 4150 Hz @ 9.3A or 107 KHz @ 0.361A Actually, the skin effect fenomena DO NOT exists in audio FR. and cables. It is an Audio daler/dealer BS to have an outstanding product over snake oil advantage. Bringing it up again and again' doesn't make it true. |
Skin effect appears to be the phonomenon in play in this situation. Laws of physics such as the skin effect apply at any frequences. It is a gradual effect. Skin effect dictate that as the frequency rises the singal si moved towards the outside of the conductors. The skin dept is defined as the dept, from the surface, at which the current density is about 37% that of the surface, for copper at 20 hz it is about 50 mm and at 20kHz it is about .6 mm. The effect at audio frequency is that as the high frequencies are traveling in a narrower regions than the low frequency the high frequency are submitted to a larger resistance that the low freqencies and thus suffer more attenuation in the cable. Hence with regard to the OP, the Analysis Plus cables appears to have conductors of smaller diametres than the 14/2, such that there is more skin effect in the 14/2 than the Analysis Plus cables witch translate to the OP comment where the 14/2 lack a bit of the high end compare to the Analysis Plus. Skin effect applies to audio frequency as it dictates the frequency balance of a cable. |
