Interconnects and speaker cables

	Interconnects & speaker cables With regard to signal cables, there are many physical parameters which are in effect including inductance, capacitance, DC resistance, skin effect, dielectric materials, RFI, magnetostriction, reflections, oscillator networks, rectification caused by impurities and more. However, not all that we can hear can be explained by physical measurements but we must respect those data which we can and do measure in addition to listening tests. With the amount of variables, the topic of cables is complex but choice of cable becomes a lot easier if the working conditions are taken into account. There is no perfect cable but under specific circumstances certain parameters can be prioritized. Due to the high input impedances of amplifiers, cable capacitance is more audibly influencing than inductance. On the other hand, loudspeaker cables which are seeing impedances of 4 - 16 ohm, inductance becomes a more important factor. It is also important that a speaker cable has a low resistance in order to maintain the amplifiers damping factor and not to produce frequency response changes caused by variations in the loudspeakers Z curve. Considering dielectric absorption, Teflon is one of the better isolation materials but air is the best. We at Audiolive prefer interconnects which utilize air as dielectric in that the conductor is almost freely suspended in air by the aid of a Teflon spiral loosely spun around an inner conductor. This type of coax-cable has also low capacitance, large bandwidth and good shielding. It works very well as an interconnect and is sonicaly very neutral. Good sounding speaker cables is another important item which can be produced at a very low cost. We braid Teflon isolated cables in the same configuration as telephone wires were made more than 50 years ago. The special braiding geometry results in very low inductance since no conductors are ever parallel to each other and are at 90º angles where they cross and are closest to each other. Audiolive is interested in achieving ultra-fidelity and based upon basic physics, common sense and listening tests, these are the cables we use ourselves and can supply to others. In comparison, we do not hear any advantage of using super-expensive hype cables of the voodooistic category.

	TOP Audiolive S-14233 Skogås Sweden Tel.+46- (0)8- 7715437 http://home.swipnet.se/audiolive E-Mail audiolive@swipnet.se Updated 2000-03-04

Interconnects & speaker cables

With regard to signal cables, there are many physical parameters which are in effect including inductance, capacitance, DC resistance, skin effect, dielectric materials, RFI, magnetostriction, reflections, oscillator networks, rectification caused by impurities and more. However, not all that we can hear can be explained by physical measurements but we must respect those data which we can and do measure in addition to listening tests. With the amount of variables, the topic of cables is complex but choice of cable becomes a lot easier if the working conditions are taken into account. There is no perfect cable but under specific circumstances certain parameters can be prioritized. Due to the high input impedances of amplifiers, cable capacitance is more audibly influencing than inductance. On the other hand, loudspeaker cables which are seeing impedances of 4 - 16 ohm, inductance becomes a more important factor. It is also important that a speaker cable has a low resistance in order to maintain the amplifiers damping factor and not to produce frequency response changes caused by variations in the loudspeakers Z curve. Considering dielectric absorption, Teflon is one of the better isolation materials but air is the best.

We at Audiolive prefer interconnects which utilize air as dielectric in that the conductor is almost freely suspended in air by the aid of a Teflon spiral loosely spun around an inner conductor. This type of coax-cable has also low capacitance, large bandwidth and good shielding. It works very well as an interconnect and is sonicaly very neutral.

Good sounding speaker cables is another important item which can be produced at a very low cost. We braid Teflon isolated cables in the same configuration as telephone wires were made more than 50 years ago. The special braiding geometry results in very low inductance since no conductors are ever parallel to each other and are at 90º angles where they cross and are closest to each other.

Audiolive is interested in achieving ultra-fidelity and based upon basic physics, common sense and listening tests, these are the cables we use ourselves and can supply to others. In comparison, we do not hear any advantage of using super-expensive hype cables of the voodooistic category.

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Audiolive
S-14233 Skogås
Sweden
Tel.+46- (0)8- 7715437

http://home.swipnet.se/audiolive
E-Mail audiolive@swipnet.se

Updated 2000-03-04