Loudspeaker cables - how do they make a difference? 

My own story on hi-fi , for years I went through many many changes in equipment , turntables amplifiers , cables etc , you know the story , until one day i (finally realised) , I am sitting here listening for... (faults ).. (instead)...of listening to the (music) . Just ENJOY THE MUSIC .

Rubber sleeve coated with more rubber...so you can imagine you can do long runs. Rubber doesn't insulate against interference. What a crock! Lol, just use speak on, or xlr cheap and far superior. This guy is such a sales guy with subpar knowledge about basic electronics and principles

everything change the sound your ears ,, your mood ;; your room ;; the way you turn your head ,,, ;; the kind of music ;; the recording ,,, much more than the cables !!!!!

There's so much snake oil in this area of hi-fi.

Electrons do not bash into each other, in some kind of microscopic Newton's Cradle manner. There is such a thing as electron drift velocity - it's dependent on current and also wire diameter but a typical figure is about a tenth of a millimetre per second. Energy is delivered through a conductive material by dint of an electromagnetic field. A conductive material is that in which such a field can exist. That's how transformers are able to energise a secondary coil (or multiple secondaries) even though the coils are insulated from each other. I don't like being a party pooper, but the information presented here regarding the fundamentals of electricity flow simply isn't correct.

14 minutes and 57 seconds of almost 100% pure bullshit.

I don't have a problem discussing cables at all. I DO have a problem with "experts" telling me ONLY expensive cables are the best...

Cables. Do they matter? Yes, of course they do.Without cable, your speaker are just an overpriced paperweight. With cables, they make good sound. Do "expensive" cables matter though? Fuck no. Get a cable from amazon basics and as long as you put those cables reasonably and put a reasonable load into them, they will just sound as good as the "expensive" ones. You say you hear a difference though? Good for you then. Data shows otherwise though, so it's 100% in your head or your previous cable is broken.

30 years to develop a speaker like that,yea ok good luck with the next one

Years ago McIntosh used to do 'traveling labs," going from city to city. They would check your old amp if you brought one in. In those labs they would compare various speaker cables and ask listeners to identify when better cables were being used. The listeners did not know which cables were being used. There was no consistency in selecting between cables - from standard 18 gauge zip cord to "audiophile" cables. This proved to me that the whole issue of "better sound" with expensive cables is marketing - if you can't SEE that the expensive cables are being used, you can't "hear" the difference.

The analogy with voltage and speed is incorrect and the electrons do not "bash" into each other.. wtf

Cables...yes. So many arguments. How about the James Randi challenge offering a million bucks if anybody could tell the difference between regular cables and supposed high end/stupidly priced cables (Pear Anjou) No one showed.

Goodness me, this is the most convoluted sales pitch and destruction of cable psychosis, I think I've ever heard. Why not come clean about something many of us know already. That expensive cables sales, for the most part, rely solely on perception. In other words, a psychosomatic correlation, the more you pay, the better they sound. You are flogging cables, fine. Tell us we have wasted our money on expensive cables, fine. Just spit it out. I for one, would appreciate a little less rhetoric, and a little more candour. Far more compelling!

It makes no logical and scientific sense that cables below a certain awg makes any difference to sound, not when cable are in the 100mR per Km, take that over a couple of typical meters and you calculate a power loss far below the threshold of hearing, inductance and capacitance are also insignificant at audio frequencies at low Meter runs. But people are genuinly convinced some sound better, thats the power of suggestion.

what absurd nonsense, if there are any factcheckers on these sites, then exactly this type of rubbish should be dealt with

Very entertaining... High quality OFC cables can reduce your electricity bill.....

Saying that electric current actually consists of electrons 'bashing' into each other doesn't explain why electrons don't pour our out of the free end of a wire if you connect the other end to a battery. The reason electrons don't pour out is because there's no difference in electrical 'pressure' along the wire until a complete circuit is made, and the circuit contains a battery (or equivalent). You need the (electrical) pressure gradient along the wire to make the electrons flow, just as the dishwasher hose needs a pressure difference between the ends of the hose to make the water flow. In some ways analogy with water isn't as ridiculous as suggested here, although of course it's imperfect. The electrons in a metal such as copper can be divided into two sorts: ones attached to particular copper atoms, and others that are dissociated from atoms and free to move. The dissociated ones, being mobile on the large scale, carry the current. The dissociated electrons are somewhat like an incompressible liquid in the sense that they don't clump together in particular places (at least, not at the frequencies encountered in audio).

Stop it. You're hurting us. You're hurting science. You're telling people fairytales about speaker cables - any physics professor worth his salt informs people it's about the material (copper) and diameter of the cable, and everything else is snake oil. You are very welcome to do a blind ABX test at my place - or any place you like - with your favorite speaker cables, be they cryogenically frozen, unidirectional, or whatever.. against standard "cheap" copper cable that's at least 2.5mm², using a system with speaker cable lengths suitable for the average listening / living room, in such a room. Next - your Sibelius speaker is a simple quarter-wave loudspeaker using a MarkAudio driver that costs €100 at MAXIMUM across the world. You are charging *over* €3000 euros for a speaker that DIY builders make for around €150 a piece. And you know what? I wouldn't care about that if you'd be honest about it and explained about the craftsmanship, the selection of wood, the selection of interior materials (angel hair plucked from a unicorn during a full moon or whatever), and the driver. But you're not. You're simply not being honest. You're selling a speaker that - with craftsmanship and materials included - costs at maximum €200 to make, for €3000, by telling people fairytales about how long the design took (sure the design of quarter wave took some decades - but YOU didn't do that research! It took YOU only *minutes* to use/copy existing formulas to make your Sibelius!). I don't have any problem with Pearl Acoustics selling their speakers at the price you're selling them at. I have a problem with the *bullshit* you spout to defend your pricing. You don't need that. Really, you don't. You need to be honest with people and tell them about your craftsmanship, selection of materials, and warranty. Tell them that yes, people can DIY these speakers, but it takes a LOT of time to do it right, and a LOT of time and a steep learning curve to make them this beautiful. Stop hurting people by telling them fake stories.

What does the voice coil have to do with the question of whether interconnect cables make a difference? That's clearly a false correlation.

Audio cables are like homeopathy: Total BS, no basis in science, and rely on placebo - and provide extremely high profits to those making them. Every hobby has something equivalent by which its industry profits from the idiot set of the hobbyists. It’s a human societal thing, it appears.

Beautiful intro and outro. That aside, snake oil.

the best sounding voice coil is ultra thin copper foil NOT wires. and lower ohms regime at 2ohms or even less, like 1 ohm or more extreme at 0.5 ohms. so, at 2 ohms or less and almost any cable is irrelevant with that patented hifi speakers. over all sound is absolutely amazing with germanium amp

I do enjoy hearing the cod science behind justifying ridiculous prices for equipment including cables. So easy to do a scientific comparison and a blind test. These have been done many times and prove there's no difference ( unless you use damaged cables or wet string ). I can't wait to hear his justification for ridiculously priced digital interconnects. The only advice you need is "if you can't hear the difference, don't pay the difference!"

Snake oil alert! If you want to understand electricity this is NOT the man to use as a reference!

Bull.

On a double-blind compare basis, they don’t. Certainly not for 95 out of 100 listeners to such a test. And the 5% that do hear a difference will still have difficultly identifying which cable is which, what is “better” or “worse” about the sound from one or the other, nor will they feel strongly enough to justify a price premium of 2/3/4 X in price, assuming the more expensive cable is the one they identify as “better” in the first place. This is just common sense.

Shame about the WooWoo, I enjoy listening to the presenter...he is very watchable...

How come all the companies that sell expensive cables never show any data from industry standard measurement devices. All they do is use audiophile buzz words describing nonsense. Then you have Audioholics that use expensive equipment to test these cables and find differences so small they are imperceivably to human hearing.

How do we know how electrons move in a cable by using an electron microscope??

I’d really love to see this guy a/b blind test whatever best cable he thinks exists vs a sub $100 10 awg ofc and just let it lie where it lays or lays where it lie or whatever’s said…

In the 30 years that I have been working in the professional audio universe, one thing has become clear to me: the eye hears more than the ear. 🙂 HiFi is also superstition and I like your way of explaining.

I use 12 ga copper oxygen free. No banana ,s. 25 ft each side. No problem. Can't find 12 ga at any store. Plenty of 14 ga. Stranded wire. I like the idea of better cables but in a pinch, use 14 ga lamp wire. Cheep and abundant. These companies trying to sell you $$$$$$. Wire is B S. IMHO. I mean if u go from 22 ga to 14 ga u should hear a big difference. I'll NEVER part with my 12 ga copper speaker cables.

Been in electronics for over 40 years and wire vs SQ has never been an issue for me. I do like the bit that tightens the banana post in the hole. That's actually simply brilliant.

The misconception about electricity is very well explained in the controversial Veritasium and Science Asylum channels. The Poynting vector equation shows energy is transmitted through the electric and magnetic field from the source, and not in the wires, resulting in the impedance problem with the first transatlantic communication cables, fried up as people thought increasing the voltage would solve noise distortion.

Having worked in electronics for 40 years, the biggest problem I have to overcome, is getting my ears to work correctly.

Be careful of anyone trying to sell you something. You are full of it-you decide what the it is. Can't believe you talked 15 minutes about copper wire you can buy anywhere. I'll bet you want hundreds of dollars for your factory made speaker cables. It doesn't matter if the wire has 80 strands or 60 strands, the length of the cable verses the gauge of the cable is what is important. Even the cheapest copper speaker cable you buy these days is oxygen free. There is no better wire for the job it is asked to do. Do a double blind test and all of you intellectual BS will go away.

I think the main issue with this video is that you have tried to over explain stuff. What you should have said is this. "We have built the speakers with quality cabling from speakers to rear terminal and designed them to have an overall flat response across the listening sound frequency range" Then added. "No special high end speaker cables are required. Just good quality multi strand copper wire with adequate outer shielding. You can make these yourself or buy them in our store but they are nothing super special" This would have got the point across much better. But thanks anyway for not selling us a bunch of snake oil about high oxygen low carbon gold plated neutron balanced glow in the dark radiation free speaker cables

What type of cable were you using that had such a big bump ? I have measured lots of audio cables with some pretty high precision instuments and I have never seen more than a 0.3 db (bump). There are no humans that can hear +/- 0.3db variation. You need no more than good clean copper, anything more is snake oil.

The water pipe analogy would be the same as having the end of the cable connected to ground, having an open pipe is the same as a grounded cable, if you had a stop on the pipe you would have the same analogy as an open circuit cable ! Unfortunately, you have done little to settle the controversy over speaker cables. large cross-sectional area quality speaker cable (12SWG for example) has little inductance or capacitance, and you cannot compare voice coil dynamics and frequency response to an ultra-low impedance cable. Agreed if you compare bell wire with a good-sized quality cable there will be a difference, but spending more than a few dollars per meter on speaker cable is completely pointless, it's all about impedance, as the inductance and capacitance are negligible. Sorry to disagree with you, but I am an electrical engineer with 35 years of experience and I have also been into high-end audio for 20 years, trust me I have tried all sorts of solutions, and there is little basis in spending 100's dollars on cable, you are wasting your money. the majority of claims I have seen and witnessed rely on the placebo effect. My advice use 16-10SWG (1.6-3.25mm) good quality audio cable priced at 1-2 dollars per meter and you will achieve 99.99% of what you are aiming for. Your pre-stages, DAC's. amplifiers and speakers and room! will have far more impact on the sound that you are producing, than cables ever will !

Cables are well understood via transmission line theory, which are one-dimensionel in nature, although they can include three-dimensional effects implicitly (such as skin effects). For the frequencies involved with audio, the cable lengths are short enough that zero-dimensional lumped models will fully describe the cable just as well as the transmission line model, which greatly simplify things, since only 3-4 components are needed. But people will rather listen, well-knowing which cable is connected, thinking they are not biased at all, and not at all consider that getting up and changing the cable and sitting down in a slighly different position will change the response way more than the cable itself did.

A full range driver with no Baffle Step, or Impedance Compensation. I would think with a set up like that, speaker cables would be the least of your worries.

Everbody knows that speakercables and interconnects can change the sound - if you use bad ones. And btw some of those come with a hefty pricetag and a thick book worth of pseudoscience and philosophy. Anyway for the normal home hifi user a 2 x 2,5qmm - 4qmm fine wired coppercable will do just fine as speaker cable. Personaly i had no negative experiences with that in the last bunch of decades.

Magic hoo hah .

Interesting, but where is the evidence/documentation that this has ANY influence on the listening experience as experienced by the listener?

It's a shame the cables have a white rubber insulating core. I find a light blue works best with rubber, especially on a Monday, although sky-blue-pink seems best for PVC covered cable, but it is in short supply, due to Covid 19 and the cold weather in Canada. Looking at the cost of most 'audiofool' cables, it is also cost-effective to braze pound coins together to create a nice, sturdy cable, although they are a trip hazard to small children and giraffe's....(polish your coins first, though, as the skin effect is a real issue at higher frequencies) 😉

I dont have a problem admitting my DH Labs speaker cables were more money than the Magenepan LRS. Fortunately my hearing can discern improvements in sound based on years of concert band for one. If your ears cant tell what real music should sound like stick with cheap cables.

So the reason the sound didn't sound quite right was down to the incorrect design of the speaker coil

This is simply a very drawn out advert for pearl speaker cable.. Shame on you

Well there you are 10 AWG copper , the sensible choice, given that there has never been any blind test that demonstrated any difference whatsover between cables .

I can for sure see the need for large gauge speaker cables and interconnects if you are running long distances. Like your speaker cables need to be on the order of 200 feet long each channel. Same for wattage load. I would not want to push a 2,000 Watt amp at 80% full power down a lamp cord. LOL. It would obviously probably burn up over time.

my guess is that by changing the shape of the voice coil wire, your driver supplier has improved the efficiency while shifting the RLC characteristics of it, thus changing the inevitable resonance peaks in a way the shrillness between 2 and 4 kHz found itself to be tamed to acceptable levels

I'm not sure your story about changing the speaker coil says anything about how cables work. The speaker coils create a magnetic field that directly move the drivers while the cables just carry a signal. It's obvious that making even small changes to the shape of the magnetic field will change the sound of the speaker. You say that silver plated wires sound brighter? How? Are you claiming that silver conducts high frequencies better than copper? Or is it just that silver is brighter visually than copper and there's a boubou/Kiki effect going on. An audio dealer once told me a wooden amplifier rack would sound warmer than a glass one, this seems like similar effect.

Cables are passive. They have no “sound”. If a cable sounds brighter than another it simply means it has less capacitance and is letting more of the signal through. Just get a good quality cable with low capacitance and be done with it. One can find these on the cheap. Who in the world would want to “equalize” with a cable. Considering we have about 5 seconds of audio memory to compare cables, without measurements it is a pointless exercise.

I'd suggest that before spending $300+ on speaker cables, spend the money on acoustically treating the room. Otherwise you're casting pearls before swine as you don't know what you should be hearing. I always am surprised by the money spent on power, speaker and interconnect cables instead of addressing the room acoustics with bass traps, diffusors, etc.

I have been using welding cables for my speakers for 30 years works marvelous

Do a double blind test between 16guage lamp cord and "magic" high priced audio cables.

Sorry, but 90% of all the hoopla about audiophile cabling is just that, hoopla. Spending $1000 for a 10 foot audiophile speaker cable vs $100 for a well built and properly insulated copper cable won't give you $900 worth of better sound. Your $900 lighter wallet and ego will tell you it does, but physics and metallurgy make the ultimate decision. Something as simple as a $.50 cent clam shell rf choke placed on either the positive or negative lead of each speaker cable will make more of a difference for a hell of a lot less money. Knowledge and common sense are what separates audiophiles from audiophools.

Hmm. I can see where your exalted speaker driver designer changing the voice coil can effect an improvement in the output of that driver but I'm still shaking my head about changes in the cable. An analogy might be a violin maker changing some part of the body of the instrument might change its sound but suggesting changing the tuning pegs will change the sound would have me scratching my head.

i'm convinced . keep in mind i start every video i watch on any subject with the intent to disagree or be insulting , but he crushed my bad attitude in short order with his sensible and lucid presentation .

He didn't even get the water pipe analogy correct. In that analogy, voltage is not the speed of flow, it is the water pressure. He goes on to completely miss the fact that a voice coil is an inductor. So, his driver designer actually changed an inductor (part of a motor), which is a far cry from what he tries to describe. This guy is full of beans but at least he isn't perpetuating cable snake oil.

Do all the rest first… if you believe that they make a difference. Dit some tests myself and could not hear any difference between a decent cable and a very expensive one. Experiment with the placement of your speakers, it is free and has way more impact than any cable but a faulty one. Instead of spending much money on cables try some room correction systems like Lyngdorf, will have way more impact like cables too… and above all listen to the music and not to the equipment…

First is room, second is electric, third is speakers, front end, amp, cables.

I believe that speaker cable can make a difference. However, the reason is not the one that most people presume. Usually the difference is quite subtle, which leads to arguments. It can also be inconsistent, which leads to all sorts of mysticism about matching and tuning by ear etc. I suspect that the root cause of all this is in amplifier design and the fact a speaker cable is not simply a low resistance connection between amp and speaker terminals but also adds in some inductance and capacitance that appear across the amplifier terminals along with the speaker load. I once had two amplifiers I was playing around with and I also had two pairs of speakers and two lots of cable. Rather than getting a subtle difference when trying different permutations, I got obvious gross misbehaviour of one amp with one cable that was fine with the other amp and vice-versa. Each amp was obviously distorting with one cable while sounding very good with the other. The differences were opposite and not subtle. This made me believe that in other circumstances there could be real but more subtle differences experienced by people swapping cables around and one person's great cable could be disappointing for another person. One speaker pair was my very good main set only a few meters from the amplifiers in the living room. The other pair were quite a bit further away in another room and quite good but nothing special - the kitchen speakers. I had some ordinary figure 8 lamp flex as the speaker cable for the remote set and I had some fancy, silver-coated, audiophile-branded cable for the shorter run to the main speakers. The figure 8 cable had the two conductors running close and parallel to each for a long distance. This made the cable also a capacitor across the amplifier terminals. One amp was stable into that and the other wasn't. The amp that had a problem with a long run of figure 8 lamp flex was fine with a shorter run of the same stuff. The audiophile cable was completely separate single conductor cables that ran along with quite a bit of separation between them - little capacitance but adding some series inductance (even a straight wire has some inductance). The other amplifier did not like seeing that load but was fine with any amount of figure 8. The fix was quite easy. I put a Zobel network between the speaker terminal and the start of the cable. A zobel is essentially a simple passive crossover such as one might have in a 2-way speaker between tweeter and woofer except that the crossover frequency is set well above 20kHz. The low pass side sends all the audio frequencies to the speaker while the high pass side gives ultrasonic frequencies a simple 8 ohm resistor as the load. The amps sees a more well-behaved load. Many amplifiers have such a network built in but some don't, perhaps to give better looking specs such as very wide bandwidth, well beyond the audio range. A better design, as many have, would be to add this simple network on the output inside the amp, ensure that the amp has a known, designed load at ultrasonic frequencies and it would be more immune to differences of cable or even quirky speaker loads.

I don't get the relationship being drawn between a free stading cable and the winding of a magnetic motor, (voive coil) they are apples and hedgehogs. Round conductor windings leaves air gaps, hexagonal wire eliminates gaps, changes the parasitics, this sort of stuff is well known and will effect a wire coil moving at velocity in a huge magnetic field, with the cable, I can't see where there link is.

Silver plated copper wire - of a very high quality - is easy to source and not all that expensive, as long as you buy it from a military electronics surplus supplier. Miles of it are used inside every aircraft. I've got a whole reel of it here. But I bought it because it's nice to solder, not because it can have any effect on the sound of a hifi. Audio cables can only have a particular sound if there's something wrong with them, like a bad connection or a grossly underspecifed diameter for the power they are handling - unless you live in a universe where the laws of physics are different to this one - I wonder if that universe is where all the audiophiles live ?

Thats a lot of talking for just saying, that cable do not really matter or differ, just needs some good quality copper with a large diameter and solid terminations that make good contact.

OFC cables are all smoke and mirrors. Normal copper core is 99.99% pure. OFC copper core is 99.995% pure. I defy anybody with run lengths of less than 20ft to tell the difference

Nothing like a hifi cable video to bring out the naysayers like moth's to a flame, but I just wish they wouldn't bother and just stayed away but they just can't help it, they have an addiction (and probably a search algorithm to find all the discussions just so they can chip in the usual commentary)

Countless blindtests showed that good standard cables are not distinguishable from the 1000 € High End Cables... the results were always what would have been the mathematical outcome of guesswork . I bought some thicker copper cables because they do look better :-) That's all.

This entire video is native advertising at its most extreme. “It’s about speaker cables”- no it isn’t, it’s about how great your speakers are. Yuck.

How embarrassing. This dude made a video that implicitly explains all that he doesn't know without him really realizing it. And the subject was speaker cables !!!!

Current is NOT electrons bashing. Sorry, Harley.

As you explained, there is a lot of difficulty in reaching a balance between the main variables in a loudspeaker cable that make for a believable sound at the listening position. A lot of what we get out depends on the magnetic field the alternating signal current generates, alternating the positions of the electrons inside the metallic crystals in the wire filaments of the cable. Then, it’s a consideration of how those myriad magnetic fields in each metallic crystal interact with the magnetic fields in adjacent crystals. The magnetic fields do work on each other and together generate a general magnetic field around the wire that moves any nearby electrons too and, according to how any electron was moving when it met the change in its local magnetic field, electron movements can actually be antithetical to transmission of the signal that is modulating the electrons’ positions. The wire ends up as a system where the signal current modulating magnetic fields creates many more magnetic fields which induce many more different currents. The longer the wire gets the more entropic the movements until the modulation is finally masked and the signal is no longer discernible. The system is not at all simple or pure in reality and, only a proportion of the intended signal remains to do useful work at the drive unit, as a magnetic field around the voice coil. The wire is also an aerial and creates part of a tuned circuit that can take radio frequencies back into the amplifier. I like how you addressed the problem by creating a reference cable to act as a known starting position for Sibelius’ neutrality. Cables behave predictably as part of the system they’re in.

The 'hydraulic' model gets a bit garbled in the explanation at the beginning. Voltage is analogous to the pressure in a water pipe. It's current that is analogous to the speed of flow of water through the pipe. We even use the same word 'current' for water flow in a river or electricity flowing in a circuit. Analgous to the water spilling out the end of the hose, electrons would travel out the end of the electrical cable if there were a similarly low resistance. The end of the hose is (continuing the analogy) shorted to the kitchen floor. In contrast the power lead is terminated by a very good insulator - a lot of air - so there is no flow. The voltage (pressure) is present but no current.

Great video and I mean no disrespect, but changing the shape of the voice coil wire didn’t change the sound in and of itself. The shape determines how much copper will fit into a given space. A winding of round wire will have small gaps where the turns and layers don’t fully occupy the available space. A square wire will pack tightly together. A rectangular or flat ribbon wire wound on its short edge will allow more turns of wire for a given height and diameter, compared to a square wire. These things affect the performance of the coil in different ways when combined with other variables of the design. So he didn’t improve the speaker by changing the shape of the wire, he did it by using a different shaped wire to create a different specification of voice coil, which is an important factor in any design. And I only mention this to educate and demystify the story, not to shit on your great video or to be a smart ass. The more we know the more we can enjoy music!

If cables really mattered you could show the difference clearly with different cables. That it is a contentious topic still suggests it’s not a big deal.

Once it’s digital, cables do nothing. Once its alanog, any 10$ do the job.

Do computers go awry with bad ordinary copper cables in fact silver cables. Don't u feel ashamed . If one starts seeing the language of Hi-fi ,irs all based around love Warm,silky smooth.Adds touch of that silky .... Insert a .....and oh! I couldn't believe. My emotions just .... U walk into the ..... I came ......

Harley, you are a fantastic ambassador for hi-fi. Thank you for your video series. I just like how you avoid so much of the hyperbole and hype. Also, the aesthetic of your listening room is fantastic. I think that could be a video.... the importance of aesthetics in hi-fi -- almost as contentious as the effect of cables. To me, since my system is in my living room, the aesthetic is very important. To others, they seem to not care as long as it sounds good. However, I do think it makes a difference. To each their own I guess.

Well , nobody bothers to respond . U r patient of v good demeanour I am always open to varying opinions. Read a lot . Thank u for a response.

I have a reasonable quality collection of components and like many, it's tough to get the sound exactly how one prefers it. I have tried a few different brands of interconnects and speaker cables over the years, and with higher end, more sensitive equipment, cables make an obvious difference to the sound due to capacitance, inductance etc that makes components react differently to each other. It's mostly a crap-shoot getting the right mix, but when you do it's certainly night and day and I used to be the guy that laughed at people that praised the cable voodoo. It's more science than fiction, and it's doesn't necessarily take expensive cabling to get the desired effect as I recently found out.

If your hifi system is well made, then so should the cables connecting it all together. Doesn't mean you have to spend a fortune, though. Use sense.

Water analogy- diameter of pipe = resistance of cable, smaller pipe = higher resistance. Water pressure differential- voltage, higher pressure difference = higher voltage Speed of water through pipe- amps flowing through a wire. Start the water moving, it starts through the whole pipe even though the water molecules are only moving slowly, they start moving together throughout the pipe, same with electrons, they move slowly but they all start together, well, at the speed of light.

they make no differnece.

Hi-Fi is a hobby and a passion. Engineering is essential part by any means. All the materials have their own fundamental specs and porpoise. Yours approach sir is very clear and honest. From this point we start to differ acceptance and understanding between us, audiophile is a world not meant for many. Apricated.

The question of cables is a great mystification! Business only!

You are brave to post this video. I would just say I respectfully disagree and that a functioning cable does not sound different from each other. Also, mechanically changing the shape of the voice coil will affect resonance but isn't really anything to do with cables or conductance. Thanks for the video though and I like your presentation style.

For anyone who says they don't make a difference, I disagree completely. They make a very noticeable difference to my wallet, and that's an objective I can measure.

There are four main factors that affect speaker cables: The material of the conductor, Resistance, inductance, capacitance. minimize these as much as possible and you’ll have a great sounding cable. Multi strand OCC Copper sounds wonderful.

I came across your video series recently and have truly enjoyed your approach to hifi audio. Which may be one area of discussion that carries more opinions than it is possible to count. My background is electronics and I too learned the water pipe model reference as a way to understand the dynamics of current and voltage within a circuit. LOL, I think it all started with how the instructor approached his discussion of Ohm's Law. However, what came soon thereafter was a discussion of the physical properties of wire and current flow (electron vs hole flow anyone?) and two distinct properties stuck with me over all of my years (now 65 of them) and those are that a wire is a component, just as a capacitor, resistor, inductor and that all wire has properties of these three values. Those values become more important with the length of the wire and/or the frequency of the signal being carried by the wire. The deep physics behind your simply elegant explanation lives and breaths. My mind immediately went back to two things that I have always considered with cabling. 1) Strong tight physical connections are critical to performance and safety in high current applications. 2) Surface volume of your cable directly influences (for better or worse) its ability to carry a signal unadulterated. Or at least to the extent possible or necessary. Your in house made cables address both of those core parameters along with the separation of the +/- cables to avoid environmental contamination. Quality of the materials is in my opinion a given, considering your customer base and your personal expectations. Listening to your discussions has brought me back to my wayward youth where I gladly traded nearly all of my cash in the pursuit of my audio Holy Grail. Best of continued success.

Sir, why use such a small dia driver in the Sibelius. You must have used a very good quality driver, surely it could have benefitted with a 10 inch driver compared to the microscopic one. It can't be bigger than six inches?

For 40 years of being a audiophile, all I know the best cable is the best match between the connected machine, type of music and the taste of the listener. It was never about price.

would have been nice to see some measurements 0,15 and 30 degrees on the sibelius since it´s not frequencu corrected so how does it take care of the baffle step.

I’m really enjoing your video. Just a right amount of audiophiliac enthusiasm, competence in what you are talking about and simplicity!

I understand everything. What i dont understand is the ridiculous prices. Their is no explanation for them. Its just grabbing money from people who already invested a lot of money for their system. A 1.5 meter 1000 Euro cable is without the "money grabbing" worth around 20-40 Euro. Just the truth

Quite nice video. Love to see that you do not need those ‚multiply woven, multi layer, oxygene-free, silver, blabla,...“ cables. I drive my speakers from a legendary Tannoy TA600 power amp via thick PA-cables from Klotz, connected to the amp via Speakon connectors - all perfect!

Since you are so concerned about cables,why do you not use pure gold?!

They definitely do make a difference. Without them I struggle to hear anything. I suppose one way of eliminating the effects of conductance and resistance of loudspeaker cables is to use a wireless link.

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People forget that a speaker cable is simply part of an overall circuit comprising amp output stage, speaker cable and drive unit (bass is the most demanding load). All you need to know to select the right cable is speaker minimum impedance, crossover design...dcr of bass inductor, damping factor, amp output impedance and damping factor. The latter depends on output impedance and crossover losses. Any cable so capacitative or inductive that it acts as a filter should be avoided. High inductance will roll off the hf and high capacitance can affect amp stability if poorly designed. Most people hearing big differences between cables are really hearing the results of either poorly matched amp and speakers or instability of the amp. Cable geometry in voicecoils matters as it affects motor efficiency hence t&s parameters but this is simply not true of speaker cable...please dont conflate hearing differences in speaker cables with mythical magical electron scale effects...all cable if similar lcr properties will effect the exact same system response...fact. Far too much tosh spoken by people with little to no real understanding of the subject. I've been a loudspeaker engineer for many years and have grown really weary of hearing sales marketing nonsense spoken or printed about cables.