Sounds like you have a plan. Go for it!
Can you provide a picture of your setup?
Can you provide a picture of your setup?
Math + Logic + Science = something completely mad...
NO. Setting amps on speakers. NO. 18 gage cable. NO. skin effect If you don’t have the room for the amps come up with a different plan. A good 8 - 16 strand OCC/silver clad PTFE weave up to 3 meters long will work perfect. Red copper or copper/silver terminal ends. (B-16) is an option. OCC or OFC 8-24 strand weave PTFE is another. No idea where you got your information.. We’re not rewiring a toaster or an ARC welder. The RIGHT kind of cable selection goes a long ways as far as "How does it Sounds". You’ll squeak out some sound with #18 all right.. :-) The cable I’m talking about sells for 250 - 3500.00 +. Depends on who’s name is on it.. They actually cost about 150.00 usd. Delivered.. and put together pretty well if you want someone else to do the work.. Second option is a ribbon design.. Same price very close in SQ to Norcast Vanilla. They make anything sound as good as it’s gonna get.. Ribbons and weaves are really really good cables for the money. GREAT cables are very affordable, LOL so are BAD ones.. Time to feed the chickens.. Regards |
Can you provide a picture of your setup? Sure. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0JH7A2XsAcv-Zj?format=jpg&name=small Mats and interconnects are still en route, hence why I haven't powered them up yet. |
Microphonics in tubes is a very real thing. The mats will not eliminate that. I would be inclined to build shelves slightly above the speakers. Your short 18 awg cables will work perfectly of course. The resistance is but a minuscule fraction of the speaker impedance. Following that short 18awg is a ton of wire in the cross-over, followed by a lot more small gauge wire in the voice coil. The variation in the resistance in the voice coil due to thermal effects is far more than the total resistance of that 18awg. Virtually every negative reply you will get will be hand-waving with no quantification as you have done. Keep in mind the wire is 2 lengths, resistance will be closer to 0.016 ohm. That will be consistent with virtually no thermal modulation. It is likely a very small fraction of the output impedance of your amplifier too. At 20KHz, the impedance will be up to 0.022. You did miss one critical element though, inductance. That will be the dominating factor. That will increase the impedance to 0.08 - 0.1 ohm by 20KHz. You won’t hear it, but it will be there. Skin effect is rarely an issue. Inductance can be. |
Skin effect is rarely an issue. Inductance can be. Only reason I bothered with the math on skin effect is because so many of these esoteric high-end cables do random weird stuff like adding dielectrics to "phase-correct" the signal. Of course, over 1-2 feet of wire, I doubt seriously that the signal could possibly get "out of phase" enough to be audible anyway. Microphonics in tubes is a very real thing. The mats will not eliminate that. I would be inclined to build shelves slightly above the speakers. So you're saying that the speaker vibrating the amp will cause microphonics in the tubes? Or is there a concern about proximity to the magnets? Certainly I could build shelves, that's an easy thing. I'm just trying to make sure I understand the problem I'm trying to solve here in order to solve it correctly. If you don't mind, I'd love for you to go over the science with me here. |