Using NACA 5 for internal speaker cabling?

Posted by: Surfing Alien on 19 August 2002

Hi Folks!

One of the things I was planning to do is upgrading the passive x-over of my loudspeakers. In my case the only part that needs replacement is the "what's it called", 2.2 mH "thing" with copperwire windings (something like a transformer) to filter out the high frequencies smile

The new one has only half the Ohms resistance of the old one so the damping of the amp can do a better job.

Point is, should I also replace he inner cabling using NACA 5? It now uses "fancy" copper-with silver layer cable.

Thanx!
Peter
Posted on: 20 August 2002 by Phil Sparks
seconded -

when I took my kans active I thought it would be groovy to replace the cable inside with A5. As RichardN states it's just so stiff as to be almost impossible to work with. Even separating each core out every time I soldered the cable to the tags and pushed the drive unit back into the box either my solder joint or one of the tags broke off. I managed to get one speaker successfully wired but for the 2nd one I dug out some old A4 and used this instead.

Phil
Posted on: 20 August 2002 by JosephR
I wanted to use some NACA5 as jumpers, and gave up ... really stiff. Can't imagine how you'll do it inside speakers !!
Posted on: 20 August 2002 by Surfing Alien
Hi Richard,

Thanx for the info; I wasn't really looking forward on the job of replacing the cable, so I probably leave it alone.

By replacing the conductor, I'm expecting a change in sound. Bass should be more tight / defined, and due to the quality of the materials used in the inductor, overall tonal quality should improve. Also, the unit should sound slightly louder. If this causes problems, I could also change the values of the resistors in the tweeter-sections to match the woofer.

Grtnx Peter