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In the Thread: Deep End DIY - Australian take one Macondo.
Post Subject: You will always have a chance to do it in futurePosted by Romy the Cat on: 10/3/2017
Anthony, it might be a reasonable
question but I will not put myself in a position to pretend that I know the answer.
In my past I spent a LOT of time to deal with cables and I know that any rationalization
you apply to it is faulty as the cables sound in the way how they sound. I
think the demands in DSET setup is slightly different. For you MF channel you
do not need the cable that do “good bass”. There us alternative to this view
and I also support it: the cable that do “good bass” frequently does better job
with MF channel lower knee. Then there is question what does it mean “better”?
Volume, noise, transients, harmonics, masking effects, etc, etc, etc? There are
so many things in the entire system that do the same! It takes some really familiarity
with you own playback, really deep and thoughtful listening and thinking and
really high performance of the entire playback to identify the very minor contribution
of individual cable. Warn you that this “contribution” might be non-permanent,
so it is a relay mess to deal with.
So, if I were in your shoes
I would not worry about it at all. Use any generic “speaker wire” that you might
buy for $15 for 100 feet at Amazon, cut them to the length you need and do not
worry about the cables. As your playback will be up and you will address any
other major problem with sound you will send the kids to college wand will have
time to audition cable and to dial in exactly what your individual channels
will need, or what you think they need. The exemption would be RAAL, what the
cable between transformer and foil in the tweeter mush be super short and must
be two foils stack together. Alex should be taking care about it for you as the
cable after a transformer with 175 transforming ratio is a very different
beast.
One more aspect that you might
not consider now. You might like your copper foils now but you looks like are building
a very “neat” looking architectural assembly. As you will be done you might not
like the look and feel of 12 copper foils running from your amps to your
drivers. Moreover, if you decided to run the copper foils across your metal
frame you might recognize that the sound of your copper foils will changed when
they are “glued” to a metal surface. So, you might go for more manageable black
and flexible cable, perhaps something that you might hide in some kind of nice
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