2m speaker cable vs 5m speaker cable - any sound loss? Discuss

[zapp1624705742]

I was just wondering if there is really any appreciable sound quality drop if speaker cable length doubles...i just changed my room wires to 5m from 2m due to positioning issues and i to my layman ears dun hear any difference.

 

Theorectically some kind of loss has to be present right? As the signal now has to flow thru a distance of more than double the original length...

[Quest88]

IMO, hardly any difference la. :)

other factors are more impt for such loss.

[zapp1624705742]

i am no physicist - but i understand there is some kind of equation or dunno what that determines the power loss due to resistance...anyone knows?

[Spunky]

donch worry too much about that!  The LCR of the cable is probably only a fraction of a % of that in the crossover network ;)

[hifiluv]

the concern will be there, if we are talking about 2 and 50 metres... for 3 metre, think the difference will be insignificant.  :)

[basspundit]

check out all these articles on cables. For the geeks in all of us. :)

 

http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/audioprinciples/cables.htm

[zapp1624705742]

I LOVE this quote lol:

 

Interestingly, the New Scientists recently commented on the London Heathrow Hi Fi Show, saying that among the cables selling for up to £30,000 for 6 metres, they found Quad demonstrating their latest speakers to great enthusiasm. The orange cable to the speakers looked oddly familiar. When asked about it, Tony Faulkner, the recording engineer demonstrating them (who'd used the speakers as monitors while recording Saint-Saen's complete works for piano & orchestra, Gramophone's Record of the Year), said of the cables:

 

    "Yes, they would look familiar if you have a garden. Before the show opened we went over the road to the DIY superstore and bought one of those £20 extension leads that Black & Decker sells for electric hedge-cutters. They are made from good, thick copper wire, look nice and sound good to me. The show's been running for three days and no one in the audience has noticed..."  - New Scientist Magazine

 

Go go DIY cables :p

[hifiluv]

just checked out some sites on advice on speaker cable, interesting, one recommended min 10 or 12 AWG thick wire. 

 

the ones i m using, Canare 4S11, Belden 8473 are 14 AWG only...

 

anyone using 10/12 AWG wires and would like to comment, if the difference in thickness makes any significant impact on the sound?

 

Tks  :)

[hifiluv]

  On 30/06/2006 at 9:46 AM, hifiluv said:

just checked out some sites on advice on speaker cable, interesting, one recommended min 10 or 12 AWG thick wire. 

 

the ones i m using, Canare 4S11, Belden 8473 are 14 AWG only...

 

anyone using 10/12 AWG wires and would like to comment, if the difference in thickness makes any significant impact on the sound?

 

Tks  :)

 

answer my own query -

 

based on tis article -

 

1. any change length of cable will affect the sound

2. thicker the gage (smaller AWG), better conductivity, so esp for low ohm speakers make sense to go for thicker gage wire.

 

http://www.procosound.com/downloads/speaker_guide.pdf

[Spunky]

  On 30/06/2006 at 10:23 AM, hifiluv said:

answer my own query -

 

based on tis article -

 

1. any change length of cable will affect the sound

2. thicker the gage (smaller AWG), better conductivity, so esp for low ohm speakers make sense to go for thicker gage wire.

 

http://www.procosound.com/downloads/speaker_guide.pdf

 

depend on how u look at it...they have to pump up the length to see figures that seem to matter! ;)

[hyper1624705763]

This is also a well inform site on speaker wire legth vs gauge size

 

http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm