LaserMark4
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There seems to be so much hype about speaker cables these days..... is it smoke and mirrors or real science?
Now that I have all the components, pieces and parts purchased for my dedicated HT, I am about to break down all the equipment I have loved testing in place for these past months, and finish the final hard construction of the room (including a small front stage, room acoustic treatments, seating, lighting, in-wall wiring, etc).
Since my equipment stack will be in an adjacent room, my "speaker cables" will be about 25 feet in length. My ML's will actually be hidden behind speaker fabric enclosures (yeah, I know, I am covering up these beauties but that's the HT design). Since the cables and wiring will be behind the walls and enclosures, and will not show on the HT room side, I would like to take non-stop cables from the amp/adjacent room, through the walls, and all the way into the speakers as one continuous wire. I have planned on using the same wire as Blue Jeans recommends for traditional speakers (10 ga. Belden 5T00UP 2-wire on a bi-amp configuration).
But then recently, I ran across this article that says ELS speaker cables have different requirements over conventional cone speakers: ELS Speaker Cabling. They stress the need for cables with lower inductance and capacitance, and a medium impedance-- specifications which are distinctly different than for conventional speakers. They suggest a coax cable over a traditional 2 wire speaker cable.
So what's the consensus? Do ELS speakers have different speaker cabling requirements than conventional speakers?
Now that I have all the components, pieces and parts purchased for my dedicated HT, I am about to break down all the equipment I have loved testing in place for these past months, and finish the final hard construction of the room (including a small front stage, room acoustic treatments, seating, lighting, in-wall wiring, etc).
Since my equipment stack will be in an adjacent room, my "speaker cables" will be about 25 feet in length. My ML's will actually be hidden behind speaker fabric enclosures (yeah, I know, I am covering up these beauties but that's the HT design). Since the cables and wiring will be behind the walls and enclosures, and will not show on the HT room side, I would like to take non-stop cables from the amp/adjacent room, through the walls, and all the way into the speakers as one continuous wire. I have planned on using the same wire as Blue Jeans recommends for traditional speakers (10 ga. Belden 5T00UP 2-wire on a bi-amp configuration).
But then recently, I ran across this article that says ELS speaker cables have different requirements over conventional cone speakers: ELS Speaker Cabling. They stress the need for cables with lower inductance and capacitance, and a medium impedance-- specifications which are distinctly different than for conventional speakers. They suggest a coax cable over a traditional 2 wire speaker cable.
So what's the consensus? Do ELS speakers have different speaker cabling requirements than conventional speakers?
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