HI everybody, my speakers are tri- wired and I want to change the cable to the tweeter what will be the effect if I used a much better cable how will it impact the sound.
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Have Dave at ZenWave audio make you a twisted cable for them out of his proprietary gold/silver wire that is Litz style. Litz is when each individual strand has a coating. This minimizes skin effect, which is something that higher frequencies deal with more so.
This is simple and effective:
Get silver-plated copper (preferably OCC from Japan) in 22 or 24 gauge, black and white Teflon conformal insulation.
Twist together 4-6 pairs of black and white wires and then connect all of the blacks together at one and all of the whites together at one end. Then do the same at the other end. Terminate with fastons or whatever the speaker and crossover needs. Just let all of these hang loosely in the cabinet, do not twist the twisted-pairs with each other.
This will create a high-Q low inductance transmission line that will not impede the HF transients. For the tweeter, this will beat 99% of the ready-made cables on the market. They are all compromises in order to support all frequencies. You only want to optimize the HF in this case.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio
What happens when you change the copper cable to the silver cable for the tweeter
What difference does it make to the sound
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