I would implement ERSE audio inductors, specifically one from the Q series.@thecapathian [I misnamed you sorry] - actually I tried to get MC to order the ERSE FoilQ which Erse claim to have even less distortion. Unfortunately Erse have discontinued the Foil Q.
But, since you never read what I write, you know with me being so horribly hateful and all, perhaps one of you fellows that miller at the moment acknowledges can pass along this most audiophiley suggestion.
Thanks ever so....
I was directing him to the same series of coils you are, just a different model. I am confident that the entire series are great performers, he did choose a highly performing alternative in a suitable gauge.
There have been shootouts on inductors and foil inductors have a particular transparency in the signal path, of which I have been informed (rightly or wrongly) is due to the skin effect, or diminishing it’s negative characteristics with the thinner geometry.
Some may ask why is it more important on the inductor as the rest of the components are not ribbon or foil conductors??
As air cored inductors generally sound better than iron cored coils, I suggested the foilQ, for reasons mentioned above. Air cored coils (also known as inductors, reactors, chokes) have longer windings (length of wire wound around a core) than ones with an iron core to achieve the same values. [I’ve wound air cored inductors in as large as 10AWG by hand, and not as much fun trying to keep it tight and neat as one might hope.]
Specifically my answer is, there is many feet in those windings, a lot more material to affect the signal along it’s path than any other single item in the crossover, or along the signal chain, including the speaker cable.
I guess MC will discover first hand whether or not it was a good call?!!
Skin effect is the tendency of an alternating electric current (AC) to become distributed within a conductor such that the current density is largest near the surface of the conductor and decreases exponentially with greater depths in the conductor. The electric current flows mainly at the "skin" of the conductor, between the outer surface and a level called the skin depth. Skin depth depends on the frequency of the alternating current; as frequency increases, current flow moves to the surface, resulting in less skin depth. Skin effect reduces the effective cross-section of the conductor and thus increases its effective resistance. Skin effect is caused by opposing eddy currents induced by the changing magnetic field resulting from the alternating current. At 60 Hz in copper, the skin depth is about 8.5 mm. At high frequencies the skin depth becomes much smaller.source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect