Kimber 8TC beater?

"Not quite identical, HDM. 3104 is four conductor, so one can shotgun each plus/minus per channel to lower resistance, etc."

I believe resistance would remain unchanged but capacitance would be lowered marginally. You'd have to compare to see whether there would be audible differences.

My point was mainly that the 3103 as a two conductor cable is a bargain relative to the 3104 at approximately half the price (under $3 ft.) and, of course, the 8TC.

I'd expect the choice of termination would have much more effect on sound quality than shotgunning but that's another discussion altogether.

I know that Gene at Takefive typically uses the Vampire HDS spades with the 3104 which are another very high quality low cost product that delivers the sonic goods.

There are some very positive comments on 3103 and 3104 on Arthur Salvatore's website in the speaker cable section.

Paralleling two 2-conductor pairs that are not physically close to one another (each pair carrying + and -) will cut resistance and inductance in half, and will double capacitance.

If the two pairs are contained within the same jacket, as in the case of the Mogami 3104, resistance will also be cut in half. I suspect that inductance and capacitance would not change precisely by the same factor of 2, but inductance would still be considerably reduced, and capacitance considerably increased.

Loftarasa, thanks for the nice words. Your posts have been impressive as well.

Regards,
-- Al

http://www.mogamicable.com/category/bulk/speaker_cable/conventional_configuration/

Slight correction to my previous post: The reference to "paralleling two 2-conductor pairs" should have said "paralleling two IDENTICAL 2-conductor pairs."

HDM, thanks for the providing the reference. A statement in it that is worthy of note is: "Connecting the conductors as diagonal pairs greatly reduces mutual inductance, even though cross-talk interferance [sic] is negligible."

Regards,
-- Al

Almarg, thanks for seconding my comments. :-)