*WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters

The abstract defines the "error" as the voltage drop between amplifier and speaker.  Isn't that determined solely by the resistance of the speaker and cable?  So the "lowest error" would be obtained with a speaker cable of least resistance?  

tbakin63 

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@TBakin63 - I believe the intro is an invitation for others test the methods and results for them selves. Perhaps instead of bashing his work you might test for yourself and report back?

Mapleshade used to make flat copper ribbon ICs. I still have a pair. Also, Ed Shilling of Hornshoppe Horns used to make flat copper ribbon speaker cables many, many years ago. Both claimed they sound better than "normal" cables.

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Nonoise

Rule of thumb says that cable becomes transmission line (reflections from impedance boundaries) when signal propagation one way is longer than 1/8 of the fastest transition time.  When perfect square wave is applied all cables behave like transmission line, but it doesn't happen in real life.  Rise time of the signal is roughly 0.35/BW, being 17.5us for 20kHz bandwidth.
17.5us/8=2.188us  a propagation time of 437.5m  (assuming speed of 5ns/m).   Designers do this calculation in any digital design to determine if wires or traces need termination.  I would worry about transmission line effects in audio when using speaker cables longer than 437.5 meters, unless I'm missing something?

(Another commonly used test is to compare length of the cable to 1/10 of the signal wavelength.  20kHz audio signal has wavelength of 10km, assuming signal speed of 200,000km/s.  1/10 of it is 1000m)