To much speakercable?
Posted by: Erik on 27 September 2000
/Erik (the surenameless)
Make sure the two lengths are the same. That's the most important thing. I usually coil up the extra length very loosely. You can also coil it in a figure of eight if you want to avoid the very slightest of magnetic effects of coiling, but this is tweakery beyond nonsense in my opinion.
Regards,
Frank.
I also have a couple of meters left, and I thank God I have them close to my speakers. In fact, the woman who does the housekeeping at my place some days ago accidentally hit one of my speakers, and made it fall down. If I had no cable left, it would have pulled the amp, and would have thrown down on the floor the support on which the electronics are standing....
Stefano.
Rob.
Vuk.
Let's assume that you've NOT placed the system between the speakers (that is, the system is on a side or back wall with respect to the speakers).
Let's also assume that BOTH left and right speaker cables are too long.
What could you do? Start by running the speaker wire from the farthest cabinet to the amplifier; if you have extra, run thisfrom the speaker PAST the system and then double back into the amplifier (as the letter J). Sofas are particularly good cable-hiding devices!
If this is not acceptable, start at the amplifier and run the excess (for BOTH channels) past the most distant speaker, then double back to each appropriate speaker. Use a houseplant (non-magnetic, aesthetically pleasing, blah blah) to cover the cable turn.
Obviously coiling is bad, though I doubt that a wire-tied turn (as Vuk's paraphrased post above would imply) would really help matters as regards cable microphony.
Hope this makes sense.
Dave Dever, NANA
Ross
quote:
What exactly is an inductor?
Oh, he's the dude standing out in front of your fave Indie band waving a big stick.
Rico - musichead
Steven
Vuk is right about the "concertina folding" - I was intrigued about the effects coiling could produce (I was a bit drunk and not up to doing the maths at the time) - so I dragged out various EMF (and RF to check if I was making any ariels) and tried coiling, zig, zag, concertining ..etc.. some serious origami. Best results gained were from the concertina approach - and even better IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT EVEN - over and under lap each "fold". Clearly - fix with something non-conducting. Lightly brush with milk, 200 degrees C for 20 minutes ....
Anorak by name .....