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

G'DAY

I’ve spent a sizeable amount of the last year putting together this white paper: The Sound of Music and Error in Your Speaker Cables

Yes, I’ve done it for all the naysayers but mainly for all the cable advocates that know how you connect your separates determines the level of accuracy you can part from your system.

I’ve often theorized what is happening but now, here is some proof of what we are indeed hearing in speaker cables caused by the mismatch between the characteristic impedance of the speaker cable and the loudspeaker impedance.

I’ve included the circuit so you can build and test this out for yourselves.


Let the fun begin


Max Townshend 

Townshend Audio



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audio2design
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Well Max showed, and continued to ignore 100+ years of settled engineering. He was joined by David from Wireworld who communicated his own brand of lack of engineering knowledge. Altogether it was as expected.

Oh ... get this, the source impedance was not an amplifier with say close to 0, or at least 0.1 ohm, it was a 400 ohm source impedance. According to Max, that does not matter cause it acts as a current source.

I feel sorry for those potential customers who will be mislead by someone who passes themselves off as knowledgeable, but clearly, on this topic, is not.
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audio2design
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kfscoll,

The construction of his wire, will result in low inductance which is good for high frequency transmission. I will not fault it on that, though some amplifiers may not like it.

However, that does not negate the paper which is poppy cock.
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Zoom meeting with Max Townshend here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKruAdjBL1lxmYMZiXe9P2A
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