maudi rose Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 I didn't have quite enough speaker cable to make a whole run so for each speaker I have about 2.5m of Kimber (grey/black) joined to a 2.5 length of Kimber (brown/black). Each strand of the cable is twisted together and wrapped in electrical tape (shoddy I know). Is it bad sonically to join them like this? and is it even worse that they are two different grades of cable? Cheers.
Ernie1553552694 Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 Only until the op tries otherwise. Still, it's not bad cable to cobble together. Soldering or a crimp join might last longer.
little blue penguin Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 As a temporary measure if you must then fine. But I recommend that you pop into an electrical supply store and buy some suitable screw terminal blocks. Twist the wires together and use the screw terminals blocks to crimp them.
maudi rose Posted June 21, 2010 Author Posted June 21, 2010 In answer to gookie, yes it does sound fine but I can't help wonder if it would sound even finer as a single run. A bit of a mission moving amp and source closer to the speakers to try out a single run though. Cheers.
Owen Y Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 Long term, you might want to aim for some type of 'air-tight' contact connection, eg. as cloth_ears suggests. Otherwise oxidation contact deterioration will slowly take place.
little blue penguin Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 Owen Y;126036 wrote: Long term, you might want to aim for some type of 'air-tight' contact connection, eg. as cloth_ears suggests. Otherwise oxidation contact deterioration will slowly take place. That was my short term "if you must" solution.
NeilNZ Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 There is a method for splicing cable correctly... wrapping with a strand of conductor and soldering and heatshrinking... tidy and a good connection...
stephennic Posted June 21, 2010 Posted June 21, 2010 Thomas;126027 wrote: I didn't have quite enough speaker cable to make a whole run so for each speaker I have about 2.5m of Kimber (grey/black) joined to a 2.5 length of Kimber (brown/black). Each strand of the cable is twisted together and wrapped in electrical tape (shoddy I know). Is it bad sonically to join them like this? and is it even worse that they are two different grades of cable? Cheers. Hi, Sound like your mixing Kimber VS with PR series, probably sound okay but I personally wouldnt be happy doing that. I looked at the kimber catalogue and they do have slightly different capitance, inductance, resistance and reactance levels but still pretty close. I dont think you get the best out of your system the VS is superior (cleaner and more open and detailed) sonically to the PR. I used Kimber 4VS for a few years and upgraded to 8TC. Cheers Steve.
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